anyone want to give me a few pointers? mike miller says the job is pretty straight foreward. no need for permatex since the gaskets are neoprene. i was thinking about using enigne oil to slide the grommets onto the nuts tho.
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anyone want to give me a few pointers? mike miller says the job is pretty straight foreward. no need for permatex since the gaskets are neoprene. i was thinking about using enigne oil to slide the grommets onto the nuts tho.
be very interested to know how u go.mine apparently need doing and because of the high quoted labour cost am thinking of trying myself
good luck
geoff
I'm getting ready to do mine next weekend. There is some good info on e38.org for doing them that I was going to follow.
Hate to post a link to another forum, but here it is:
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/124059
Hope this helps you.
John
Is it just me, or have there been a disproportionate number of M60 valve cover posts of late? Must be that time of the month.
If you haven't, might want to do a search, likely to find a few pages of good info.
Dave
guys, I'm also doing both intake gaskets and valve cover gasket this weekend. Mine has an extremely rough idle. The valve cover doesn't leak too bad, but I will swap them anyway while in there. This will be the first time I tear down the car this much myself - usually just oil, fuel, air / filters change.
Do we really need permatex? If yes, which one?
John, thanks for the link - very good detailed info there.
Good luck!