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Originally Posted by Awntchi
William, you are a star! Thank you so much for this!
I agree with you on the washer...even the prints on it don't go with the assembly.
The diameters are roughly the same here (quick look with the ruler). Seeing now how it lines up in there, I can understand the logic. It allows oil to pass through but not back...just like the awesome members on this forum guessed. Now, considering that oil still goes back through another valve I see no interruption in the flow nor any "starvation" of oil when engine is off. I'm I correct in saying that? Nevertheless, the car seems to run just as good without it but I'll make sure to reinstall it when the day comes...finalising on the solution 
Cheers buddy
BMW X5 4.8iS 2005 |
Absolutely!!! Glad I could help... I can't really see in the pictures if the plastic three-legged plug has a hole in the center... If not, I can see it being a flow back valve... But not sure why it would only isolate half of the pump... And the bigger question is why they keep coming out... Yours is out... Mine is missing... Is it important enough to get another pump for my X5 since the parts aren't avail by themselves?? This is a fairly labor intensive job to get the pump out of an X5...
Thoughts anyone?!
Cheers for now!!! Got an email today that some of my new parts are in the mail... Probably get the box by this weekend or early next week... Until then......