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Hello to all great forum sorry my first post is wanting info
right i have bought a 328i tourer on a 97 r reg fully loaded for £500 the previous owner had already done the headgasket and said he used it for a couple of weeks then started to leak water out of the water pipe on the back of the head so parked it up.
So anyway i purchased thinking how hard can it be well after much cursing swearing, and dodgy postions with mirrors and torches i can confirm the water is coming out off the head ( it looks like it has lifted) so started pulling the rocker box off coils etc had a gander at the headbolts and 6 out of the 14 are loose and wont tighten up never had this before its almost as if the threads are stripped in the block,
so my question is this fixable or is the engine scrap what do i do know thank you very much in advance and sorry again for the long post
Jay
right i have bought a 328i tourer on a 97 r reg fully loaded for £500 the previous owner had already done the headgasket and said he used it for a couple of weeks then started to leak water out of the water pipe on the back of the head so parked it up.
So anyway i purchased thinking how hard can it be well after much cursing swearing, and dodgy postions with mirrors and torches i can confirm the water is coming out off the head ( it looks like it has lifted) so started pulling the rocker box off coils etc had a gander at the headbolts and 6 out of the 14 are loose and wont tighten up never had this before its almost as if the threads are stripped in the block,
so my question is this fixable or is the engine scrap what do i do know thank you very much in advance and sorry again for the long post
Jay