timing belt question

[mkcman17]

hi guys,

noobie here changing timing belts...i've got the ign rotor/cam cover off but am trying to get it into position 1 and can't find the indicators to line up...looks like there's some kind of plastic cover in the way but it does not want to come off. advice appreciated, want to knock this project out. picsssss below

thanks,

mike

[Atreus]

you take off the upper and lower timing belt covers?

[mkcman17]

no, not the lower, just the upper. i took off the rotor and then the upper cover and that's where i'm at now.

[Dirtbleed]

Line up the marks on the cam and the head.

[Dirtbleed]

And make sure the marks on the lower timing belt cover and the harmonic balancer line up.

[mkcman17]

thanks for the input!! got it all put back together and sinched everything up. just need to know how much/what kind of coolant to put it. block is drained so i need to fully flush...can i just buy prestone concentrated and 50-50 it with distilled h20?

[SpecM]

you can, but the oem BMW stuff is better

and its blue... how cool is that?

[mkcman17]

^
talk to me about $$$$ not colors :-)

not to say i'm 'cheaping out,' i just don't want to pay for the name.

[Eric Giles]

^
talk to me about $$$$ not colors :-)

not to say i'm 'cheaping out,' i just don't want to pay for the name.

It's not just the name, it's the formulation BMW uses. Personally I have always just paid the extra and used BMW coolant-the extra piece of mind is worth it to me, plus it's not like you are changing it that often.

[gw ix]

Change it every two years or 30K, which ever comes first.

[Sirotto]

What is a good gallon cost anyways. So a gallon of BMW blue costs 20 bucks, cheapo cost 14. So 6 bucks huh. Spend the money get the good. Try rebuilding a head and scapping the cheap crap out of the coolant passages when it eats your head gasket. Just saying.

[Atreus]

i've run that prestone dexcool orange colored coolant in both my cars (e30/e34) with no issues. i mean where does bmw get their smurf piss from? lol. i don't justify the price difference, its all about whats in the coolant, search a lil bit, you'll find it.

[SpecM]

i've run that prestone dexcool orange colored coolant in both my cars (e30/e34) with no issues. i mean where does bmw get their smurf piss from? lol. i don't justify the price difference, its all about whats in the coolant, search a lil bit, you'll find it.

Dexcool?

you, sir, are a dumbass

[ForcedFirebird]

I work on a lot of GM's and always convert them to non-dexcool lol. Besides dexcool deviants are almost just as expensive as the BMW blue, more than any green stuff.

[E30Gus]

water and water wetter.