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mcbutler
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Pools of oil round spark plugs

Post by mcbutler » Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:18 pm

Hi All,
Went for a nice cruise over Dartmoor yesterday evening. A guy pulled up next to me and said my car smelt of burning oil!!!
At that moment I got a whiff of it as well. This morning I noticed some oil seepage on the side of the engine between the front and halfway along above the exhaust manifold. I took the plastic cover off and I have pools of oil around spark plugs 2 and 3 counting from the front.
Camcover gasket??

Any ideas chaps??
Mark
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Pools of oil round spark plugs

Post by jamie_z4 » Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:19 pm

mcbutler wrote: Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:18 pm Hi All,
Went for a nice cruise over Dartmoor yesterday evening. A guy pulled up next to me and said my car smelt of burning oil!!!
At that moment I got a whiff of it as well. This morning I noticed some oil seepage on the side of the engine between the front and halfway along above the exhaust manifold. I took the plastic cover off and I have pools of oil around spark plugs 2 and 3 counting from the front.
Camcover gasket??

Any ideas chaps??
youve nailed it - more than likely the rocker gasket
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Pools of oil round spark plugs

Post by Buckz » Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:29 pm

jamie_z4 wrote: Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:19 pm
mcbutler wrote: Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:18 pm Hi All,
Went for a nice cruise over Dartmoor yesterday evening. A guy pulled up next to me and said my car smelt of burning oil!!!
At that moment I got a whiff of it as well. This morning I noticed some oil seepage on the side of the engine between the front and halfway along above the exhaust manifold. I took the plastic cover off and I have pools of oil around spark plugs 2 and 3 counting from the front.
Camcover gasket??

Any ideas chaps??
youve nailed it - more than likely the rocker gasket
well, depends what engine?

my n52 just had this fixed(or so I hope, will check after a few good runs)

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=99109
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Pools of oil round spark plugs

Post by mcbutler » Thu Aug 24, 2017 3:05 pm

Buckz wrote: Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:29 pm
jamie_z4 wrote: Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:19 pm
mcbutler wrote: Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:18 pm Hi All,
Went for a nice cruise over Dartmoor yesterday evening. A guy pulled up next to me and said my car smelt of burning oil!!!
At that moment I got a whiff of it as well. This morning I noticed some oil seepage on the side of the engine between the front and halfway along above the exhaust manifold. I took the plastic cover off and I have pools of oil around spark plugs 2 and 3 counting from the front.
Camcover gasket??

Any ideas chaps??
youve nailed it - more than likely the rocker gasket
well, depends what engine?

my n52 just had this fixed(or so I hope, will check after a few good runs)

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=99109
N52, it was the rocker cover gasket. Sent it in for repair, warranty stumped up for it. However (there is always a however) they had to disconnect a hose from the coolant header tank to remove the camcover. As they did so a clip from the hose fitting launched itself across the workshop and disappeared, (apparently into a parallel universe) never to be seen again.
Workshop has ordered and paid for new hose from BMW, only stock is in the good old fatherland so it could be a week before it arrives!
Bye Bye bank holiday cruising..
Mark
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