Small oil leak possible rocker cover gasket ??

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riverside23

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Hi all I left the Z4 standing for a couple of weeks while I went on holiday and when I started it up on return got a little bit of smoke coming from the engine bay left hand side as you face it .

Looked around and saw that a tiny bit of oil seems to be leaking around the front where the half moon is and on the rear left side .

My car is a 2.0 4 cylinder . I have had a price for the kit from BMW for around £101.00 and about £190 to fit £290 . Formula one day that if I can get the kit they would probably charge around £50 labour . It doesn't seem that difficult .

When I changed the plugs I noticed that the furthest plug in the canal looked to have a very slight bit of oil .

Any of you guys had similar and what prices did you pay to sort ....
Can anyone recommend anyone Crewe are ??
 

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Get clued up and diy fella.
My m54 was leaking, dropping the slimy stuff onto the hot manifold and smoking away like a rasta after payday.
Swapped a new gasket in and solved the problem.
:thumbsup:
 
Thanks Chris could do with some advice by anyone who has done the 2.0 plenty on YouTube for the 3.0 which seems quite easy . The 2.0 has some some silver cylindrical item in the middle of the two spark plug tubes .
Can do the strut , get the coils out need to sort the gasket out . £100 for a bit of rubber is rediculous .
Mines registered 03/07
 
When changing rocker cover, good practise to change the rubber washers as well. I learnt this on my third attempt on my old E39 3.0 M54.

https://www.bestpartstore.co.uk/1881768

Sorry, can't comment on the 2.0 engine but changing rocker cover on M54, 3.0 is straightforward and about 1 hour labour if they spend a decent amount of time thoroughly cleaning the surfaces before refitting.
 
riverside23 said:
Was that recent how much did it cost to rectify ??
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It was a couple of years ago, bought a new pump on Ebay for £70 you can get a seal but tried that and it still leaked after a while.
 
Just had mine replaced, the rocker gasket was from BMW (saw the reciept for it on the desk 8) ) £83.34 and 1 hour labour £45.00 :thumbsup:

And of course B@$TARD VAT. :x

Steve Slattery BMW Loughborough.

Cheers, tug :thumbsup:
 
Just bought the gasket to do my 3.0 M54 , I think it was around £42 from my local BMW dealer. Did it on my last one it takes about an hour or so, probably longer as I'll have a cuppa half way through .

It's not hard at all and some people on here have done wonderful how to guides. It's real credit to Z4 owners.
 
Whatever you do, avoid the cheap £10 gaskets from eBay.. They leak! Ended up replacing mine with an Elring (quality stuff) from euro. Cost was about £28 with the vat for my M54B30.

Mike
 
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