That timing is off. U need to lock the crank with the flywheel. There is a hole under the starter that goes through the block in to the flywheel. That was the pin, what will was holding in the beginning. Also u need to put the tensioner in before u tighten the cam gears. If u start it like that and the vanos kicks in... bye valves!
@@2cheesy423 fuck if I know, but from the years of content I've seen I always suspected he grew up with his mom and she probably hadn't remarried. He never mentioned anything about his dad. That's how I grew up. I thought I saw that in him. So whatever the circumstances, I'm glad he has somebody like Tommy to not only look after him and keep him out of too much trouble, but to be a mentor and someone to look up to.
One thing I gotta say man. You always seem to have a great time. All these videos are just good vibes. Homies. Laughs. I’m super jealous man. Fucking rad
I’d love to do something with you man! You don’t get enough credit for the shit you do man! Your builds are no joke. Been following tour gtr…. How crazy!
TIMING IS OFF!!! You always lock the crank first and then put te chain on with the camgears and leave the bolt of the camgears loose. And then you put the tensioner tool on first then you tighten the cambolts. If you don’t it wil not be timed correct. The camgears have no keyway because you lock them with te bolts. PLEASE CHECK!! The engine wil blow if you don’t. The camgears wil allign with the crank when you put the tensioner tool on and then you tighten the bolts of the camgears and should be fine. But great work and respect for just doing it that’s the best way to learn cant wait to hear it come to life👌👍💪
Are you saying that the tensioner locates the cam gear? If your crank is locked at TDC (which he said he did) and the cams were locked with the tool (which he did) and the cam gears were tightened with the chain while all of this was aligned, how would it be out of time?
@@wildnbk he did lock the cams but not the crank. The crank locks at the flywheel and that’s not on. Before you tighten the camgear bolts you have to put tention on the chain with the tensioner tool so the camgears can rotate freely to take the slack out of the chain but the cams and crank stay locked. When you done that you can tighten the camgear bolt.
It's already on the edge he didn't soak the lifters n the crank was torked to 270 bls not the 100lbs the 270 deg that he read out loud from the tork specs on his phone. I hope it goes well I like willy but think he and Chris are better off stickin to simpler set ups
@@shawnnugent6545 Will read out two different torque specs. The first one was for N54, which he followed. The second was N55, which is what you're referring to
nah it fucked, they didnt research shit about how it goes together. Its gonna fuck the valves and cam gears not long after they start driving it. Gonna be funny lmao
What are you talking about, he should have soaked them in oil for at least 8 hours before installing them, that thing is going to clickety clack like an 1800 steam locomotive and possibly score the cams up badly!!
"this one's a long one" - Me: "oh nice, ~20 minutes, I can watch this before class starts" *looks at time* "nah, I'm gonna wait till after." Love the long long videos man.
i havent timed n54 but pretty sure you have to install tensioner tool correctly before tightening cam gears to cams, that is exactly because of chain slack, gears do not have keyway so tightening chain removes slack and moves cam gears to correct orientation before tightening sprocket bolts. That's normal thing for bmws and for many others
Oh my God I can't believe they couldn't wrap their head around this. What a shit show. I think they just did a bunch of Colorado work because they're trying to get the n54 figured out off camera. Hopefully everything goes well
definitely love the long videos maybe try to film one or two a week? since i’m a og i love anything that comes out lol keep it up chris loving the content recently 👍🏼
You really need to stop listening to Tommy with this engine You NEED to flywheel on with the lock pin and that’s you “timing mark” you can’t just eyeball the piston at TDC the ecu will through vanos codes as there isn’t much of a tolerance You will need to get two new cam gear bolts and redo the timing procedure with the flywheel locked with the pin
@@autoSRI i wouldnt normally give a shit but i bet will cant afford to blow a motor and turbos like tommy and rudnick. Tried to tell him on instagram but he kinda just blew me off. Oh well, ill buy the shell when they end of selling it.
@End Of All Things bro tommy told them to take the head off. You dont need to do that on a n54. You have to build the motor before the head gasket fails.
That clip at 8:40 is exactly why most projects are perpetually half-done. Tom's mentality of "while you're in there" is great if you've got deep pockets, but jfc that engine is expensive to fix.
The sound over the timing chain coming out was great 😂 Almost as funny as Tommy giving Chris and Willy a hard time about the cigar 😂😂😂 Edit: the chirps at Devon were HILARIOUS Swaggot is the best term I’ve heard in so long
That was the most painful timing procedure I have ever witnessed lol, also that is the easiest BMW engine to set timing , you did it right but I would have put the flywheel back on and dropped the pin in
I cannot wait to see the first start up of this engine. The reaction of Will and Ruddy is going to be priceless. A lot of midnight oil being burnt to get this project done.
He didn't have it on the engine and it's 4 strokes is a complete revolution that's why it's called 4 stroke engine. The spark plug only fires 1 time every 4 revolution's. If he would of went 4 turns the intake valve and the exhaust valve would of opened which would allow him to see if the valves would hit the Pistons
but then if he did that he would have "while im at it" too much stuff. it was supposed to be a budget build and if he did mains he proabbly would have done acl or king and then had to do rods and pistons
Alright Chris, I’m 34 seconds into this video, and I’d just like to say, that you have a lot of projects going on, like the Colorado, the jeep, and wills beemer, and I know you like working on your toys, and if 50% if not more of your viewers are like me, then keep on doing the longer videos, just do you bro, I’ve been watching you since the haggard days, always been a fan, keep up the good work, you’ve come along way, from jb welding turbo manifolds for miatas to having a 500hp m2, you make me try to accomplish my goals, and passions, your doing great bro.
@@123vaw123 Jz would work too but the cheapest way to go would b Ls. It would probably cost about the same as what he already spent on fixing the engine he got
I still watch this after years because you guys dont act like you know it all. Nothing worse than a cocky yt that knows it all and doesn’t show the learning process
So glad will is back and grinding harder than ever. Videos would be rolling out so much slower with just Chris and it definitely wouldn’t be as entertaining. Wills been working so hard and the fact that he can work and Chris can film and edit making for daily uploads just is the best.
I agree with the other comments about installing tensioner before tightening the cam sprocket bolts. I would take the tensioner and cam bolts out again, replace bolts again, install tensioner then lastly the cam sprocket bolts again. This is the same as a VW engine I've worked on, you deffo need to apply tension to chain before tightening cam bolts.
U have to bolt the heezenhoffer to the grivis Ravis or you will jump timing to blinker fluid valves. The sending it unit will come unglued and the motor will lose half it's horses...yes forty five of them. Maybe Tommy has some extra blowmee bigmeet shaft pins laying around to stop the pins from leaking out pre-maturly. Idk. Hope y'all see this comment before starting her up
I think having the occasional long video would be the way to do it. Don't want to burn yourself out. Especially with the daily uploads and the ammount of work you've been putting in.
Yeah man loving the longer videos. Props to Tommy for giving Will some credit for taking on this big of a project, you can see it in Will's face right after he said it. Dude loves it when you throw him a bone!!!
Definitely love the long videos, I could watch you guys all day long. I spend majority of the videos trying to catch my breath because Tom and little will are hilarious!!!
I really hope Will gets this engine back together the right way for his sake , he has put alot of time and money into it so I want it to turn out good for him, but watching this makes me worry alot , I would have went and talked to a bmw technician to walk me thru the process or paid him a couple hundred bucks to come put it back together.
Guys sorry to break the news but you did the timing wrong! The cam phasers should be tightend WITH the chain pretensioner installed!. Bolt down all the guides, put the cam phasers on and slightly tighten them so they can still spin on the cam, then put the chain pretentioner in and torque it to spec, it's something very little like 0.4 or 0.5Nm with the tool I have, yours might differ. This will tighten the chain and twist the cam phasers to their correct position. I think this is what Tommy meant when he talked about the slack in the chain and the lack of fixation of the cam phasers. With the pretensioner installed there should be no more movement anywhere. Also the crank needs to be at exactly TDC. If anything is off by even a tiny bit it will throw vanos codes. I hope you read this because I want this build to come out good for you and Will. Also I love the longer videos, maybe you should make one like one day in every week? Maybe on weekends so people have time to actually watch it fully.
