Put in a new waterpump along with the belts, pulleys, tensioners. That odd sound I'd hear now and then is gone now. Looks like the old waterpump might have been close to failing, and as I suspected, the idler was going bad and the tensioners weren't quite so tight anymore.
So, I'm very glad to have averted the classic BMW catastrophic water pump failure
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06-01-2014, 08:41 PM
Water pump win!
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