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The biggest issue you come up against is the oil feed tube in the end cap for 5th gear. Piece of piss if that oil tube isn’t there, but a bit tricky to remove and refit if it is.
@Stacy82 does it make any noise at idle and dipping the clutch? Or is it when the cars moving and you press the clutch?
If it’s the latter it’s the bearing on the mainshaft failing I would say.
Eh, there’s no need for that is there! There was no slurring of words last night. Not to the extent of last Friday anyway. Mchopter - see! I can type it, just not necessarily say it when I’m a good few jägers in 👀
Ok so flywheel is bolted to the crank, the clutch cover is bolted to the flywheel, so when you redline it with the clutch depressed, you will still be spinning the gearbox input shaft. That’s normal, but I wouldn’t be revving it like that at a standstill personally.
Gears feeling notchy is...
Nope. But it’s obviously now become internet folklore.
The only N57’s I’ve seen have been police vehicles. And that’s because they spend the majority of their life sitting in a lay-by at idle, then when mr/mrs criminal come smoking past, they go from 0 to tasty and it didn’t do them any...
Trust me mate, the noise is very distinctive.
Interestingly enough though, the fault codes that the M3/M4 display when the motor fails wouldn’t actually lead you to the valvetronic motor! Lol!
Oh and @FatRS listen for a ticking noise from the top end of the engine at idle. It sounds like a...
So I’ve seen more valvetronic motor failures than I’ve seen crank hub failure! Granted, no ones going to necessarily bring a modified M3/M4 into a main dealer, but I’ve never seen a standard spec crank hub failure. Remapped? Yep. And BMW see it in the data that’s transmitted back to them, so...