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Don't use your sock as an oil cap!

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pdanev

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This is some funny shit... :lol: Priceless!!!

I ****ed up bad. camshaft-oil problem

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if all you are going to do is flame me, just leave the thread and thats that. I ****ed up badly the other night. The oil light came on, i got oil, put it in and accidently dropped the oil cap down below the engine. heres where i ****ed up- i temporarily plugged the uncapped oil hole with a sock and the sock got sucked into it after about 5 mins of driving. its wrapped around the cam shaft-im pretty sure thats what it is... and i need some advice on how to get it out without shelling a shitload of money out to bmw to take it in there. should i unbolt the top piece there and cut it out and then flush the whole thing with some stuff at kragen or just try to cut it out piece by piece through the hole with a sharp razor and take the pieces out with needle nose pliers and then flush it?

please any advice or help on this crap move i made would really really really help me out.

thanks to anyone who replies
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PS: the story is about a 2002 M3.

Full story here: http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=311931
 
lol... you can still drive with the cap not on... you'll just loose alot of power because there is no pressure
 
:lmao:

I must admit I once forgot to put the oil cap back on my '84 Trans Am, but at least I didn't put a sock in it. :oops:
 
I drove without an oil cap once as well.

That guy owns an M3 yet he can't afford to fix it. He sounds young too. Almost too young of an M3 owner.
 
He really turned that DOHC into a SOCK, if you know what I mean. :mrgreen:
 
I had my oil cap come off my first car (Ford Contour/Mondeo), drove about 10min or so before smelling oil and found out. But I wasn't stupid enough to plug it with something that wasn't meant to be there. But why not search for it...or call someone to come out and help? Now the poor car's engine has a stuffy nose :lol: :bangin:
 
SiR_dude said:
Mischief007 said:
That guy owns an M3 yet he can't afford to fix it. He sounds young too. Almost too young of an M3 owner.
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A young, spoiled one? :x
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Exactly. "Mommy has AAA card and Daddy has Chevron card. I'll use both so that I can cheap out on the proper repairs for the car."

Seriously with all the fibers in there and the build tolerance of that engine, it will never run right and he'll have more issues down the road.

Silverstar
Stuffy nose...:lmao:
 
"Look, when your mechanic buddy told you to 'put a sock in it' after you went into a panic for dropping the oil cap, it was just a figure of speech!"
 
chaos386 said:
"Look, when your mechanic buddy told you to 'put a sock in it' after you went into a panic for dropping the oil cap, it was just a figure of speech!"
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you clever fellow...
 
SiR_dude said:
Mischief007 said:
That guy owns an M3 yet he can't afford to fix it. He sounds young too. Almost too young of an M3 owner.
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A young, spoiled one? :x
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if he was spoiled couldnt his parents pay to fix it?
 
Taking your oil cap off causes a massive VACUUM leak.
Anything you put on it will tend to be sucked into the VACUUM.

Dumb people deserve to suffer.
 
Z Draci said:
Taking your oil cap off causes a massive VACUUM leak.
Anything you put on it will tend to be sucked into the VACUUM.

Dumb people deserve to suffer.
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are you sure?

so why are they talking about oil pressure then?

and i don't see how an oilpump, which pushes oil up, creates a vaccuum.
maybe it creates a vaccuum down below, in the carter, but not on the cams

(as far as i know, feel free to correct)
 
matt_shaw said:
SiR_dude said:
Mischief007 said:
That guy owns an M3 yet he can't afford to fix it. He sounds young too. Almost too young of an M3 owner.
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A young, spoiled one? :x
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if he was spoiled couldnt his parents pay to fix it?
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some rich parents like to make sure their kids know the value of hard work, so they will buy them an M3 and pay their insurance, but make the kids pay for inspection/repairs/mods out of their $500 monthly allowance....


:?
 
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