it's beautiful!

Beautiful and nice that you brought it back from an early grave. It’s been quite a journey.
Congratulations and stay safe.

Time for Valley pan gasket. I bought all the parts about a year ago, but never had chance to start.
Since I won't be going anywhere, finally started long overdue project.

I'm doing the same thing as mine blew upon bleeding the system after the pcv, osv and 88c tstat...https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0e51d9aa42.jpg

Looking good. I guess you sent little further with vcg and upper timing cover gasket?

Well done project, White! You have preserved a beautiful machine! I hope my 4.4 will look as good as your 4.6 some day. Looks like it takes patience and time, and right now I have a lot of that!

Thanks for all of your updates!

Completed valley pan gasket and finally checked off from my to-do list.
Following parts were replaced and total cost was about $200.

11141742042 Febi Valley pan
11141736106 Uro Valley pan cover
11531731833x2 VR Water accumulator gasket
11531710048x2 DPH Water pipe o-ring
11531710055x2 DPH Water pipe o-ring
11511731372 VR Water pump gasket
11611433328x4 Elring Intake manifold gasket
13641437476x8 Bosch Fuel injector o-ring
13547510433 VR Throttle Body gasket
11611729727 Elring Throttle housing gasket
11537500746 Gates Coolant hose

Yeah they were leaking so figured now was the right time to get them done...

Thanks for sharing this journey. It’s great to see where you began to where you are now. Great work! Beautiful X5! Thanks. Stay safe out there.



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