Help - Has anyone replaced a M50 headgasket themselves

[Scott E]

My buddy has a 92' 325i with a blown gasket and wants to tackle the job himself. Any and all advice is appreciated.

[TheGeak]

I'm doing it on a S38B36 right now. I'd say dive in, it can't be any worse!

[Jon K]

I'm doing it on a S38B36 right now. I'd say dive in, it can't be any worse!

I am thinking about it with Jason.... encourage me.

[Scott H]

I am thinking about it with Jason.... encourage me.

[Jon K]

Weak scott, real weak.

[632 Regal]

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[ryan roopnarine]

tell him to provision for a beer buddy, and AT MOST it would take them 4 full weekend days to remove it......more like twelve hours if one has help.....if he doesn't have a full set of various metric tools of all kinds (wrenches and sockets, deep and shallow &c. &c., he might do well to get a mediocre tool kit with these elements NOW, or he will likely be driving back and forth from autozone during.....it really takes no "skill", per se, but time and patience......but a decent mechanical knowledge.. if he wants to go it alone from the bentley, he would do well to rent the cam tools from koala, as well as seeing where he can buy the m50 head bolt socket from, as it is very thin OD'd. admittedly, i didn't get all the way through mine, but if i had help, and budgeted more time than a week to get the head off, to shop, and back on again, methinks things may have turned out differently.

[TheGeak]

we could do it Jon. Lets get the M5 put back together first....then we'll tear through that M50 like a frat boy through a keg.

[ryan roopnarine]

this is gonna be a pre-emptive headgasket replacement????why????? is there a good reason? i'd think that it would be more productive to clean your undercarriage and replace all the hoses on your car if there's nothing wrong with it.

[TheGeak]

no no....

if we pull head head for a port & polish then there's a PERFECT reason for it! Then we could do his hoses, belts, and all that other fun stuff too.