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  3. Posted · Edited by sweetm3 · Report reply

     

    22 minutes ago, Funkyflynz said:

    Interesting, thanks for that, where did you get temporary shim kit from?  can you actually run the car with them?

     The fake/temporary kit was from Ireland.

    "can you actually run the car with them?"  No mate 

    With my E36 the shims are stamped with a size on the underside of the shims, so you have to remove a shim to see what size that shim is.

    This kit will allow me once I have checked and noted all the clearances, to remove an out of tolerance or a boarder line shim, slip in a temp shim turn the motor over by hand to release a shim that would fit better/come within spec

    So I get to the point where the existing shims tolerances are well with in spec and I can order the remaining out of tolerance one's I need.

    But as you said the car will be off the road while you wait for your order to arrive. 

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    Hi Lee

    I have not heard of anyone offering a loaner kit, great idea.

    I checked my E36m3 valve clearances late last year with the idea of ordering just what I required rather than a full set. Luckily all mine were within tolerances.

    What I did buy for next time was a temporary shim kit, metal disks the same diameter as shims. So I could remove the existing shims use the metal disks to fill the vacant spots

    Allowing me to select which existing shims fit best at each location and still turn the motor over by hand.  

    Hope that makes sense as it maybe an option for you

    Good luck

    Mark 

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    I'll never know, ECS had them list BMW E36 M3 power pulleys, I brought them, got them but they were Turner Motorsport pulleys. Turner site say they are not for Euro M3 they're mostly right.

    Power steering pulley installed OK ,( need it as at taupo driver training showed that the power steering was working to hard. )

    The Alternator pulley would have worked, but it was the wrong one. I returned it with a photo of my old one then got another wrong one back,

    After further research in the USA my alternator (pulley) is off an E46.

    Water pump pulley was way to shallow.

    So I be listing the Bosch Alternator pulley and E36 Water pump pulley soon  

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