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N54 Rocker Gasket (and Oil Filter housing gasket?)

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N54 Rocker Gasket (and Oil Filter housing gasket?)

Post by Dylan R. Fisher » Wed Oct 26, 2022 5:20 pm

Hi,

I believe i've got a common oil leak around the rocker cover, and oil filter housing. I've attached some images to this thread. Planning on buying these from ebay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313051706085 ... R4r_ksOCYQ - rocker cover

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393213408865 ... BMoNLi0IJh - oil filter housing

- Dylan
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Post by Chippie » Wed Oct 26, 2022 7:01 pm

This is the one I bought

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/372833533202 ... media=COPY

And the oil cooler gasket set was from AUTODOC
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Post by Chippie » Wed Oct 26, 2022 7:37 pm

Are you doing the work yourself?
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Post by Dylan R. Fisher » Thu Oct 27, 2022 11:58 am

Hi Chippie,

Yeah I'm planning on doing the job myself, unless you can recommend any good garages near Reading.

Thanks,
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Post by Chippie » Thu Oct 27, 2022 12:55 pm

Only asked as all the how to tutorials say to remove the radiator fan, but when my son did mine he managed to get the oil filter house off without, which saved a bit of extra work and time.
From memory I think he used a 10mm ring spanner on the “star” head bolts as access with a socket is limited.
Also with the rocker cover he had to loosen the injector clamps to give a bit of wiggle room to get the cover off.
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Post by hopz121 » Thu Oct 27, 2022 2:48 pm

Dylan R. Fisher wrote: Wed Oct 26, 2022 5:20 pm Hi,

I believe i've got a common oil leak around the rocker cover, and oil filter housing. I've attached some images to this thread. Planning on buying these from ebay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313051706085 ... R4r_ksOCYQ - rocker cover

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393213408865 ... BMoNLi0IJh - oil filter housing

- Dylan
I believe BMW use elring Gaskets, but for something like this I would personally buy them from a BMW dealer. The last thing you want to do is replace the gaskets and find they still leak due to poor fitting gaskets.

Maybe get a quote from BMW it shouldn't be too bad.
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N54 Rocker Gasket (and Oil Filter housing gasket?)

Post by flybobbie » Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:30 pm

What if cam cover is distorted.
I wouldn't mess about, change the cam cover with gaskets.

What i did on my N52 engine.

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