Anyone wanna come and help me with my engine?!

Hello

I've an 88, but mines the E34.

Are you sure you want to do this ?

As far as I'm aware ( I'm no mechanic, just a keen diyer), you are going to need the head skimmed before you re-fit it.

This is the kind of job I used to tackle with my father, who is unfortunately dead now.

Do you have all the info ?, torques etc, do you have someone who can skim the head ?, are you ok with fitting the cam belt again, lining it all up etc ?

Your only about 50 miles away from me, I'd be more than happy to help you if I can, but I'm not clever enough to be the "leader".

There you go, told you I was dangerous lol.

I assumed yours was an M20 engine, as mine is, its only a year newer than yours, and I thought the early E34's shared the M20 engine with the E28's, until it was replaced with the cam chain M50 engine.

I'm still willing to help, just not to be trusted to lead

As far as I'm aware, and this sort of information largely comes from people like my late father, the head will still need to be skimmed, it doesn't matter why you remove it, once you remove an alloy head, it should be skimmed.

He had a dolomite sprint in the 70's too, I remember it used to "blow" the electrodes back up inside the spark plugs.

Lets hope someone clever will lead us in this little project, it would be good if we could actually pull something like this off, a sort of central region "big job" hit squad.