New oil leak?

[Wookster78]

Any ideas where my new oil leak could be coming from, I have the M54 3.0 engine and have a small
oil leak down the exhaust manifold side of the engine. Before anyone suggests I have changed the rocker cover gasket twice and there is no oil directly under
It or on the manifold heat shields. Looks to be coming from the solenoid area and thin deposits collect on the air compressor area, any ideas where it could be coming from? There is a small plate with two nuts next to the solenoid, could it be from there or the solenoid itself?

 

[Wookster78]

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[bearded_ed]

Did you get to the bottom of this? Feel like I have the same problem!

Any ideas where my new oil leak could be coming from, I have the M54 3.0 engine and have a small
oil leak down the exhaust manifold side of the engine. Before anyone suggests I have changed the rocker cover gasket twice and there is no oil directly under
It or on the manifold heat shields. Looks to be coming from the solenoid area and thin deposits collect on the air compressor area, any ideas where it could be coming from? There is a small plate with two nuts next to the solenoid, could it be from there or the solenoid itself?

 

[Wookster78]

Actually yes I did, although I had changed the rocker cover gasket not too long ago I did not put enough instant gasket on the half moons by the vanos, the result was slow weeping down the front of the engine block that I could not see and it leaked down the bottom. Was no tell tale sign with burning oil on the manifold which is the normal sign the gasket is gone. Anyway changed it for a new one and loads more gasket and no more leak.
My suggestion would be change the rocker gasket again and use lots of instant gasket on the joining parts