M50 ticking noise
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patrick85
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As the title suggests..... My M50 has started ticking quite noticably. It sounds like it's coming from the head. It only started recently. Whats the most common cause of this. Thanks guys.
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rich318i
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change the oil 10-40w semi
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BATTS91
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beat me to it lol
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rich318i
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going to engine flush mine soon just to clean it out.
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patrick85
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Done already mate.rich318i wrote:change the oil 10-40w semi
I want to know what caused similar problems in other people's M50s.
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randomspeedfreak
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im just about to have my injectors sent off. one of them is making a racket!patrick85 wrote:Done already mate.rich318i wrote:change the oil 10-40w semi
I want to know what caused similar problems in other people's M50s.
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ross_jsy
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My m52 in my e39 does this. It's a noisy injector
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DanThe
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5/30 fully synth is a much better oil to use, common for these to suffer with sticky lifters from long service intervals and poor quality oil
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bimanut
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I`d go for above or noisey injector.
Could be worse
Could be worse
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patrick85
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Litre of diesel in the engine oil to clean the system (didn't have any flush and diesel works better anyway), ran it good and hot, changed filter and filled it up with fully synthetic 5w 30 LL04 spec engine oil that I had for customers with newer cars. Now ticking over like a mouse's heart. Lovely.
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rich318i
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not heard of putting diesel in the oil to flush the engine before. but least its sorted nowpatrick85 wrote:Litre of diesel in the engine oil to clean the system (didn't have any flush and diesel works better anyway), ran it good and hot, changed filter and filled it up with fully synthetic 5w 30 LL04 spec engine oil that I had for customers with newer cars. Now ticking over like a mouse's heart. Lovely.