IMS Replacement... The Jager Saga

[tonycarreon]

Originally Posted by jaykay

By pads do you mean chain tensioner pad wear giving more cam chain slop and loss of motion on cam shafts?

yeah the ramps/tensioner pads on the variocam solenoid - though all the pictures i've seen of them show them as a brown color and the bits in the filter were black and rounded. so perhaps the chain guides as well. can't imagine both of them are fine after that many miles / years.

[Paul]

Jager, great work and great pictures!

Hope to have some time to get back to my 2001 "project".

[Jager]

Originally Posted by Paul

Jager, great work and great pictures!

Hope to have some time to get back to my 2001 "project".

Thanks Paul... I was wondering how far you had gotten on your motor issue. Since you are tearing it down, are you going to ship the IMS to LN Engineering and have them do the bearing upgrade??

Jager

[Paul]

Originally Posted by Jager

Thanks Paul... I was wondering how far you had gotten on your motor issue. Since you are tearing it down, are you going to ship the IMS to LN Engineering and have them do the bearing upgrade??

Jager

No progress since the last set of pictures, have been way too busy and I'm still conflicted on whether it's worth fixing.

[jaykay]

Originally Posted by tonycarreon

yeah the ramps/tensioner pads on the variocam solenoid - though all the pictures i've seen of them show them as a brown color and the bits in the filter were black and rounded. so perhaps the chain guides as well. can't imagine both of them are fine after that many miles / years.

I found black bits in my filter and thought they were tensioner guide material but when I put pressure on them they crumbled like carbon.....carbon deposits released by my spirited driving perhaps; they were roundish small bits ....quite a bit actually. I am not really sure what they are

....couple of green copper specs along a few silver metallic specs which were cause for concern