Permanent VCG solution M54?

[AV8R4AA]

I can second X5Chemist love of these all aluminum valve covers. Guys, send your POS plastic cover to the landfill. These are the Bomb. I will add that you should wash your new rubber gaskets in Dawn detergent before assembling them. There is a sticky mold release film of the gaskets. Get that off before you fit them on the aluminum VC,s. I took a lot of pictures and the fit and finish is superb. Can’t post the picture because they are too large. Not a geek so I’m lost there. Anyway I loved the cover so much on my 2003 525 wagon I bought another one for the sticker shift 2003 X5. With 3.0 engine. I bought from Amazon and even the hardware and gaskets re great.

[getty150]

I've seen these VC on Amazon, very attractive. I would spring for a couple but my existing OEM covers are performing just fine. If I were to run across one at the bone yard however, I'll id most likely snap it up...

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[X5chemist]

Originally Posted by AV8R4AA

I can second X5Chemist love of these all aluminum valve covers. Guys, send your POS plastic cover to the landfill. ..... I took a lot of pictures and the fit and finish is superb. Can’t post the picture because they are too large. Not a geek so I’m lost there..

AV8R4AA,
Email the pictures to yourself. Before the email goes out, your phone should ask what size to email them. Choose small or medium size. After receiving smaller pictures on my computer smaller, I can post them. This works on iPhones. Not sure about Android. I would like to see your pics!

[EODguy]

Originally Posted by X5chemist

AV8R4AA,

Email the pictures to yourself. Before the email goes out, your phone should ask what size to email them. Choose small or medium size. After receiving smaller pictures on my computer smaller, I can post them. This works on iPhones. Not sure about Android. I would like to see your pics!

Use Tapatalk to post them

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[Bmwe5320023.0]

Ordered this one, it also includes all new bolts and rubber grommets

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/385974605549...mis&media=COPY

Hopefully this holds for many years

[X5chemist]

Cool, you have the first style ignition coils. Post pics after the installation.

[Bmwe5320023.0]

It came with some small nicks and red stuff. Not sure what it was, i scraped it off. Shouldn't interfere with sealing.
Don't know if i used too much form a gasket or not.
I'll let it dry for 24 hours and do a test drive tomorrow.
My coil 1 and & 5 were drenched in oil, the other ones were dry.

I used form a gasket inside the valve cover, on both sides of the gasket and on the head.

I didn't use rtv on half moons, I still have some left from previous installation, and I'm not sure if it would bond with form a gasket or not. It would be like mixing form a gasket and rtv together, so don't know if I did it right or not. I think I used enough form a gasket to seal off those half moons. We'll see...

[Bmwe5320023.0]

[Bmwe5320023.0]

Originally Posted by BimmerBreaker

The compression from the rubber donuts around the perimeter serve that purpose. Those "push" the valve cover gasket into the head.

I've seen people use all kinds of weird stuff to try to seal those. I've also seen oil leak into the seating channel for the valve cover and leak up and out over the top of the gasket when people "glue" the valve cover to the head.

The gasket leaks when, for one reason or another, the "pushing" force of the rubber gaskets is so longer enough to provide enough sealing force to resist the crankcase pressure. If gaskets are failing prematurely, I would be investigating the CCV system, not trying to modify the gasket to be "glued" to the head.

This is with engine idling. I've removed ccv system completely, and the hose from valve cover goes into the manifold.
I've done it more so to help with oil consumption, as many suggested. So I think it created less pressure and more vacuum. In my case it didn't help with oil consumption. Soaking cylinders with Acdelco stuff didn't help either. The only think that stopped oil consumption was Lucas honey stuff.
Now I don't know if whatever pressure/vacuum I have under the valve cover is making matters worse or better.
I was under the impression that I have pretty light vacuum, which would not be causing the gasket to leak.

As far as form a gasket is concerned, it seems that it's made exactly for this purpose. I dont know why you call it weird. It literally says to be used on gaskets

[X5chemist]

Nice work. I had to use my non work computer to see the pictures. How many miles are on it? Maybe it's lighting, cam caps and head look to have darker oil residue than mine.

The engine sound is different. I'll wait to see how it sounds when temps hit above 95F here. All the oil smell on mine is gone. I can walk around it after turning it off and not smell oil residue. So far exhaust shields are clean. I have not checked the oil level. At the next fill up, I will. Hope to make it another 1200 miles without topping it off. The next oil change is due at 170k miles.