Factory repairs gone bad,,,,here’s a picture of a X5 E70 with a N55 engine,,,performed a oil service ,,,,while removing the drain plug all the threads in the oil pan were stripped out,,,,so BMW came out with a factory heli coil repair kit for this problem,,,,so I performed the factory repairs like all the 100’s before over my career,,,,will I guess it would happen sometimes,,,,the drain plug was leaking oil after the repair,,,,and as you can see the heli coil was pulling out of the oil pan.
So the bottom line,,,is good news for the customer,,,,and bad news for me,,,,customer gets a new oil pan,,,,and I have to replace it,,,,not a fun job,,,,the life of a BMW technician.
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What needs to be removed to get to the point of removing the oil pan?
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What type of car and what engine are we talking about,,,,,what’s the reason for removing the oil pan,,,,,is the gasket leaking
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N55 E70. Gasket might be leaking, at least that’s what I was told.
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That’s not a easy job,,,,the whole subframe has to be dropped and the front diff has to be removed,,,,all the suspension component have to be removed from the subframe,,,,after you finish the job your supposed to perform a alignment on the car,,,,because all the front suspension components have been removed and the alignment might change.
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It’s about a 12 hour job
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