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A more detailed video is not needed- just use common sense, and earn it.
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For what it's worth, I much rather be using the endoscope on an engine than where a Proctologist has to work...
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Using the scope I used (No commissions there, I am not money driven) there’s no reason that you can’t receive a positive result.
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Reference my other thread here:
https://rennlist.com/forums/996-foru...as-failed.html
I picked up an endoscope from Amazon and, going through the open oil sump, I can see inside the 'bottom' of the four 'easy to reach' cylinders, but I can't figure out how to see the other two. Does anyone have any advice for me?
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I think I've seen those videos (I think there are 2) and I could be wrong, but I don't remember him showing or saying
how
he got the scope in there, just that it was difficult and that he "went through the number 5". I'm hoping Jake (or anyone) will reply to this thread with more details or even (hope against hope) a more detailed video
The key to this task is the scope used. It must be super flexible, and have a camera no larger than 5.5mm with a sheath smaller than the camera.The camera I used in the video is 40 bucks on Amazon.
It is not easy- you have to work for it. I have done this hundreds of times, so I know exactly where to position the crankshaft, and the camera to access the cylinders. A more detailed video is not needed- just use common sense, and earn it.
Watch the video.. I enter cylinder 6 from cylinder 5, basically from right to left, then I bend the camera into the bottom of the bore for cylinder 6..
Effort. Execute effort.I had no one to shoot me a video, no one told me that I could do this. I figured it out myself. You can too.
I got the endoscope that you link to in the video, I hope you got a commission on that.
Thanks for the advice and encouragement. It might seem easy* (relatively speaking) to someone that has seen the inside of an M96 engine a time or two and knows where things are. I wouldn't have even thought of it if I hadn't seen the videos, so you've already taught me a lot, thank you. I think it might be a little easier to figure this out once I get the old engine out of the car and on an engine stand, I can flip it over and scope it while sitting/standing over the 'top'.
* I know you didn't say it's easy, I mean that a 10 out of 10 difficulty level to you might mean 20 out of 10 difficulty for someone like me who is new to the M96.
Its as difficult as you make it out to be.. Either you can, or you can’t. Either way, you are right.
Using the scope I used (No commissions there, I am not money driven) there’s no reason that you can’t receive a positive result.
You need to sit down and survey the real estate inside the engine yourself. Don’t be expecting a miracle to do the work fo you.. You may have to move the crank position to get the connecting rods in a better position, or you may need to position yourself differently under the engine to help your fingers bend the scope into the cylinder.
Be less concerned with how I do it, and more concerned with you doing it, in any way that makes sense to you. The hardest part is removing the sump plate, and you’ve already done that!
