Owning an E70 X5///M

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Small update.

This weekend, reached 210 000 km mark,.
Since owning this car, i have had the "no acoustic tones" problem, so had no sound. Got my hands on a replacement amplifier and the same alarm persists. So did some digging, the TV unit aswell as the earphone unit, tucked away in the boot failed due to an earlier leak i had in the car. Because they were part of the Fibre optic network nothing worked. With some more homework , found that you get a MOST loop bypass, bought myself two of these and tunes banging again.

 

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After having tunes again, the itch started to fill the bass properly. So have added a targa TA-K18500.1D together with a JBL CLUB 102SL Shallow woofer. It took some time getting the box to work. First tried a High to.low converter , feeding from the signal from amp to the underseat subs, needless to say, i fried the converter, then i tried something else, connected the RCA cable directly from the sub outlet into the amplifier. Banging quite good for the size of the sub.

 

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Then allas, today back as the workhorse

 

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Hallo All

So the car started Smoking intermittently, sometimes none and at other times sommer a huge pile of smoke.
After doing some home work, the snail inlets is quite wet for some time now, replacing the vent hoses will not help this.
The Earlier S63 engines had this oil seperator cartridge(Circeled above) built inside the valve covers, At agents they sell them as a kit, valve cover gaskets with bolts included.

Ordered the kit last week, work keeping me busy so will probably fetch tommorrow. Hoping this will stop the smoking issue.View attachment 28461

So Monday I have started with this journey, bliksem, it aint fun and games but managed to remove the RHS valve cover.

 

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Important to note the valve cover kit with oils seperators does not come with completer valve cover seals the part that goes under the HPFP flange is not included, only saw this last night.
While dismantling, i broke one of the PCV lines, they become hard and brittle, Got some silicone hoses from FTF, will try them and see if it will do the job.
No crossing fingers it would stop the smoking, still a few days to go before we shall see.

 

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Removing or loosening the feul lines from fuel rail to injectors is also a pita, due to lack of space, finding fuel line removal sockets is also a pita so i did this.....

Used a long #14 socket and cut it to fit, it helped a few other headaches.
This job is not for the feint hearted but patience is key and more importantly, having the correct tools. Some tools i did not have, and lack of knowledge( first time doing this on this car/ engine) . There were actually a few times i wanted to abondon it and send it somewhere to get it done.