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Originally Posted by dewolf View Post
Did you find the broken piece? If you did you dodged a bullet. Plenty of horror stories of that broken tab getting caught in the timing chain casuing teeth jumping leading to catasptrophic engine damage. Also try the Besian oil pump disc. Good time to replace those Vanos bolts with upgraded ones from BMW.
The broken piece was still attached - barely. I installed the Besian oil pump disk, rebuilt solenoid pack, upgraded seals, S62 springs, etc. Along with new pulleys and belts - since everything was already apart. Almost $3k by the time all was said and done, but it's much quieter now. The car has 95k on it, so I should be good to go for another 100k.
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