M60 valve cover gaskets this weekend

[markus]

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.

[compmore]

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

[stargazer_61]

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

[Dave M]

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

[e34musician]

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!