Quick M60 Valve Cover Leak Question

[Fetch]

Hey guys, I haven't posted in awhile, but I'm still around!

I was tinkering with my car yesterday and noticed I have a very small amount of oil pooling up by the spark plug coils.

See pictures below...
If this is all that has accumulated in over 5,000 miles (probably way longer), should I worry too much about anything?

It'll be easiest for me to do the job this summer.

I soaked up the bit of oil that was present on both sides of the engine.


I read the oil pooling can damage the coils, doesn't it take a ton of oil to do that?....


The pooled oil is towards the back of the engine on both sides of the engine:



Thanks everyone

[Dave M]

I don't have an M60, but from your pics it appears that the oil is originating from the perimeter of head cover gasket, not the 'rings' that seal around the plug holes. In order to check if the 'rings' are leaking, you will need to pull the plugs and look down the holes. It is leaking in this area that may cause damage (unless the oil we see is able to make its way down the plug holes). But again, take this with a grain of salt as I'm much more familiar with the M50.

Dave

[Antrieb]

I had WAY more than that in my valve cover. The oil corroded the plug boots so I had to ghetto electrical tape them up.

God I hate my motor.

[Boone.Msi]

i had that much, and it seems to have fouled my ignition coils. I would go ahead and look into it or get some new valve cover gaskets.

[632 Regal]

yep gasket time. I suppose if you manually keep it dry you can buy some time. The covers are time consuming, at least for me they were as it took forever to scrape the old gasket off. Was like glass and really held tight on the valve cover side.

[bimmerd00d]

Definitely get on that Valve Cover gasket. Here's a few pics of my E39 (M62) when i dove into it.

www.bimmerd00d.com/images/540i/vcgasketjob/

[Dave M]

Definitely get on that Valve Cover gasket. Here's a few pics of my E39 (M62) when i dove into it.

www.bimmerd00d.com/images/540i/vcgasketjob/

Boy, was I out to lunch. I wasn't aware the 8's sealed up like that. Thanks for the lesson.

[Dave M]

Posted without consent. dood's oily head

[bimmerd00d]

Posted without consent. dood's oily head

Yah, that's how she looked when i got her.

[ryan roopnarine]

how the hell would that even run with that much oil? is there some magic to obd2 that allows spark to happen with that much fluid grounding out each spark plug?