[hans747]

Hi Everyone,

I took my cylinder head to the machine shop a few weeks ago. When I got there, I realized that I hadn't done as good a job stripping it as I had thought. There were still a few nuts and bolts that we took off while I was dropping it off. So far, I have been able to reinstall everything EXCEPT for these two washer/spacer things. I am not sure where these go. I have two of them.

Any ideas where they go?

 

[TheEinstein]

Looks like a simple spacer, but to what or where, no idea. What are last 7 of vin?

 

[hans747]

Last 7: GD22160

The part measures: 8mm inner diameter, 16mm outer diameter, 8mm thickness.

 

[TheEinstein]

I want to guess #16 here: http://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showparts?id=HJ63-USA-08-1992-E34-BMW-525i&diagId=11_4932

Not sure otherwise, but I'm guessing that because it looks like something exposed, and it has a couple measurements that come close to noted.

 

[hans747]

I just ran out there to check, but that one is way thinner than the mystery spacer. I'm guessing this is either tied to another external part, OR... maybe they accidentally gave me some parts that were from another engine?

 

[TheEinstein]

Not sure then. Possibly from something else, hard to say since I've never torn one of the 6's down.

 

[hans747]

Hard to say since I've never torn one of the 6's down.

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