Hello all,
Looks like a rash of breather hoses - oil seperator issues on the board as of late. I fear I have the (dis)honor of being the next guy to report this issue.
I was down in Denver last week, get a frantic call from the wife: "Just drove the X5 into the garage and it's smoking from the hood!" I called my pop to go up to the house and take a peek. He tells me that there was a little bit of oil around the Oil filler cap and on the ground, about an 8th of a liter. He checked the oil, was showing full. He also put some cardboard down under the truck to see if it continued to leak. The wife reports to me no further leaking.
I get home yesterday, after doing some research here, and start looking for signs of bad crankcase breather hoses. Can't see anything, oil level is full, no problems. The breather hoses are a little gummy, so I decide be safe and change them anyways.
Pick up some new ones this morning, start pulling the old ones out, and then find this in the oil separator:
I start thinking...uh-oh. So I pull off the hose that goes from the bottom of the oil separator to the right hand side crank case, cut it open, and here is what it looks like:
Now here is the question of the day, do I replace the separator too? or not? As well as my parts person said that this part gets gunked up too and should be replaced: (Part number 2)
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts...81&hg=11&fg=40
What do you guys think?
02-08-2007, 05:27 PM
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