BMW never seems to be able to solve this oil filter housing gasket problem. It's been a problem for years and years and years through several generations. Geez BMW, fix your junk already you know? Maybe route some groves where the gasket can fit or maybe, I don't know, use the best possible rubber compound known to man? Sheesh. I guess it wouldn't be a BMW if it didn't leak oil straight out of the factory! Anyway, you should change this gasket right away if you haven't already, lest your belt disintegrate from oil dripping on it and weakening it and get wrapped around the crank pulley and squeezed past the front crank seal and into the engine. You don't want that kind of mess.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:00:57 Removing the cabin air filter housing, cowl, engine cover, and air snorkel
00:03:26 Removing the air filter housing
00:05:04 OEMBimmerParts.com
00:05:39 Job Outline
00:06:54 Disconnect the charge pipe
00:07:39 Unbolt the intake manifold
00:09:47 Lift the intake manifold a tad
00:10:26 A peak at the valves!
00:11:04 Removing the hardest to get to bolt
00:11:50 Removing the lower bolt
00:14:48 Removing the under car splash shield
00:15:10 Removing the oil filter cap
00:15:27 Finally, removing the oil filter housing
00:17:24 If you have the oil cooler, you have to do this
00:18:46 Replacing the oil filter housing gasket
00:19:14 Reinstalling the oil filter housing
00:20:21 Cleaning up
00:22:30 An idea on how to keep this job less messy
00:23:39 Reinstalling the intake manifold
00:26:27 Reinstalling the air filter housing
00:27:15 Reinstalling the air snorkel, engine cover, cowl and cabin air filter housing
00:30:19 Starting the car to confirm there are no leaks
00:30:42 Wrap-up
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