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  • Disco Benny
    Advanced Member
    • Aug 2011
    • 123
    #1

    Where does this go???

    So I was taking off my cylinder head on my 85 325e and this little guy was in cylinder 4

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/50420037@N07/6097192100/

    Now it is NOT one of the 2 guides for the HG and Cylinder Head and it pretty much fits into any of the cylinder head bolt holes

    What is it for and/or do I need it????

    NOTE: There was never a "Marble in can" sound before I took the head off so this "sleeve" was installed somewhere

    Help!!! I want to get my baby back on the road!!
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    • CHIF8008
      No R3VLimiter
      • Nov 2010
      • 3447
      #2
      looks like nothing that should be in there. must have fallen in, any numbers or letters on it? is it rubber?
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      But of course
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        • jlevie
          R3V OG
          • Nov 2006
          • 13530
          #3
          That looks like a dowel. There are two of those, one towards the front of the engine and one towards the back. There purpose is to correctly align the head with the block. You need both dowels.
          The car makes it possible, but the driver makes it happen.
          Jim Levie, Huntsville, AL

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            • LJ851
              R3V OG
              • Nov 2010
              • 7918
              #4
              ^ He mentioned in the first post that is was not one of the 2 locating dowels.
              Lorin


              Originally posted by slammin.e28
              The M30 is God's engine.

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                • Disco Benny
                  Advanced Member
                  • Aug 2011
                  • 123
                  #5
                  it's smaller than the dowels...and it's just like how a dowel would be.

                  no numbers, it's metal, it's small...it's annoying me

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                    • jlevie
                      R3V OG
                      • Nov 2006
                      • 13530
                      #6
                      Originally posted by LJ851
                      ^ He mentioned in the first post that is was not one of the 2 locating dowels.
                      I realize that is what he said, but that is what it looks like. If it was underneath the head and there isn't marks on a piston it would have had to have been being used as a dowel. Will a head bolt fit through it?
                      The car makes it possible, but the driver makes it happen.
                      Jim Levie, Huntsville, AL

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                        • Disco Benny
                          Advanced Member
                          • Aug 2011
                          • 123
                          #7
                          just checked...A head bolt will NOT fit through

                          baffling...

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                            • E30_fiend
                              R3V OG
                              • Apr 2006
                              • 7348
                              #8
                              Doesn't the intake manifold have a centering dowel too?
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                                • Disco Benny
                                  Advanced Member
                                  • Aug 2011
                                  • 123
                                  #9
                                  SOLVED IT!

                                  I just recieved another head in the mail and I found that the "Sleeve" is for one of the Timing cover bolts

                                  Thanks for all the helps folks!

                                  Cheers

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