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Sorry for the crap pics, bit of an oil leak onto the exhaust - Left hand side.
Anything to worry about or just let it be?
Any common thing known to drip oil in this area that I could check?
12 C63BS Magno Alanite Grey, 25 X5 Msport, 08 BMW E93, Ducati Hyper 698
Mine leaked exactly there also was the back lower corner of the drivers side valve cover, gasket was bad, cost me 70 bucks from fcpeuro for the gasket, the 4 spark plug hole gaskets and the 13 single use bolts and about 2 hours of my time.
It looks to include a couple of bits I don't need but their other valve cover gaskets don't include the bolts, are these only supposed to be used once?
See here: https://www.fcpeuro.com/products/mer...ing-1590160121
12 C63BS Magno Alanite Grey, 25 X5 Msport, 08 BMW E93, Ducati Hyper 698
Bolts (at least on the newer black plastic covers are single use (not sure on the older metal covers), they have a bushing that crushes a little when torqued.
Going to have a crack at this myself, is there anything else a newbie like me needs to know doing this repair? (Such as the bolts are single use - I wouldn't have known that)
Any torque specs on those bolts, or other anything else I should be aware of?
Thanks again
12 C63BS Magno Alanite Grey, 25 X5 Msport, 08 BMW E93, Ducati Hyper 698
It's a bit fun, nothing hard, just the couple lower rear botls are tough to get to, works well if you have a 1/4" drive ratchet a few extenstions a universal joint and a small 1/4" torx that fits the bolts, otherwise pretty straight forward. Torque is 8.5 Nm
Last edited by roadkillrob; Oct 12, 2019 at 06:25 PM.
It would appear it is cracked at the back and has had a repair.
The valve cover gasket looked pretty good and most of the oil appears to be coming from coil 3, which appeared to have no spark plug gasket what so ever?!
What you guys reckon, new valve cover or let it be? If new, wheres the best place to buy one?
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