Rocker Arms - Availability etc
Folks, I need some advice, maybe this is a topic for the tech gurus out there? First some background - I have RHD CSL which I have owned since 1984. I was was working overseas for some time so the car has been off the road since I think 1988 and although it was a runner when it went into my garage, it is no longer so. Having returned to the UK in late 2008 I am now contemplating/investigating the possibility of a restoration with my relatively meager resources. About ten years ago I was persuaded to let someone take it away with a view to getting it running as a start to a restoration. Somehow they broke two rocker arms and I had the car re-interred in my garage at my home. June 2008 my son dragged the car out of the garage, gave it a wash and took a few photos. He also said that he was able to turn the engine over fairly easily with a spanner on the crankshaft.
Question One - Can anyone supply a theory/guess why the rocker arms broke? Just so that I can figure out what is going to be tough to remove and what bits I might need to replace.
Today I rang a local BMW agent to find out cost and availability of a set of these rocker arms. With all his hi tech resources he could not tell me, he said there was no reference on his system to such a part number for my CSL Chassis number. SO he will have to check with the BMW factory to see whether I need to buy a complete assembled Cylinder head. Pretty good eh? I assume all UK BMW agents have equal resources so did not verify this situation via other BMW dealers.
Question Two - Does anyone know where I can economically buy components like rockers and Valve springs, gasket sets etc for E9s (from any country)?
My perhaps misguided intention is to get the car' engine running before I go any further. I do however realise that the bodywork holds the greatest potential to devour funds.
I posted a few photos of my car (chassis 2285085) here http://s733.photobucket.com/albums/ww336/weebachle/ In the next day or so I will try to add some more photos to this that are a bit more "tell it like it is" revealing.
Thanks
Graeme
Folks, I need some advice, maybe this is a topic for the tech gurus out there? First some background - I have RHD CSL which I have owned since 1984. I was was working overseas for some time so the car has been off the road since I think 1988 and although it was a runner when it went into my garage, it is no longer so. Having returned to the UK in late 2008 I am now contemplating/investigating the possibility of a restoration with my relatively meager resources. About ten years ago I was persuaded to let someone take it away with a view to getting it running as a start to a restoration. Somehow they broke two rocker arms and I had the car re-interred in my garage at my home. June 2008 my son dragged the car out of the garage, gave it a wash and took a few photos. He also said that he was able to turn the engine over fairly easily with a spanner on the crankshaft.
Question One - Can anyone supply a theory/guess why the rocker arms broke? Just so that I can figure out what is going to be tough to remove and what bits I might need to replace.
Today I rang a local BMW agent to find out cost and availability of a set of these rocker arms. With all his hi tech resources he could not tell me, he said there was no reference on his system to such a part number for my CSL Chassis number. SO he will have to check with the BMW factory to see whether I need to buy a complete assembled Cylinder head. Pretty good eh? I assume all UK BMW agents have equal resources so did not verify this situation via other BMW dealers.
Question Two - Does anyone know where I can economically buy components like rockers and Valve springs, gasket sets etc for E9s (from any country)?
My perhaps misguided intention is to get the car' engine running before I go any further. I do however realise that the bodywork holds the greatest potential to devour funds.
I posted a few photos of my car (chassis 2285085) here http://s733.photobucket.com/albums/ww336/weebachle/ In the next day or so I will try to add some more photos to this that are a bit more "tell it like it is" revealing.
Thanks
Graeme
