I tore it down again this weekend and figured out what I had done wrong the first time. I was misreading the timing marks on the crank wheel (I'm not sure what the correc term is for this part). I was looking at the arrow on the face of the plate instead of the little mark on the side of the wheel. ...

Yes, I turned it over by hand at least 4-5 full turns before putting it all back together. I have done timing belts and chains on a Mazda, VW and a Yamaha motorcycle (chain) but this ticking noise has me a little worried so I haven't been driving it until I can tear into it again. I was thinking if ...

Please help if you can. I recently bought a '87 325is which I love and decided it was due for a timing belt change (50K miles and 9 years on the old one!!!!). Everything went fairly smoothly on the change of the belt and tensioner and while I was there I changed the coolant pump as well to avoid hav...