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Originally Posted by X5only
It was impossible to install the timing cover without ruining or compromising the functionality of the timing cover gasket. It goes in easily without the gasket but the gasket cannot be installed thereafter without ruining it. I just decided to remove the valve covers and get it over with since I have all the parts already.
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Hi, i just wanted to add in my experience. I just did the upper timing chain cover in my 545i E60 2005, and i was in the same spot as you (valve covers just done). It is in fact very much possible to remove it without removein valve covers, i manged to do it in 3 hrs. you just have to clear as much as possible and you have to take it out in a angle, tilt it and wiggle it out. Patience, patience, patience. And oo i almost forgot.. patience. Once you get it out, clean the mating surface and the reinstall the gasket and wiggle the cover back in. Been driving the car in 3 weeks now and no leaks so far.
Cheers
