Vanos seal change

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heathy325
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Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:50 pm

Has anyone done a vanos seal change on there m52 single vanos engine? Going to do mine and just after a guide to do it cheers
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Tue Dec 08, 2015 10:21 am

I've done one and it was straight forward, if you search for dr vanos there are lots of online guides that walk you through the entire process.

There is another way of doing it which I will also try on my next engine and that is to undo the 5 or 6 10mm (from distant memory) bolts that hold the sproket onto the vanos housing and pull the housing off without disturbing the timing or cam set up. There is a thread about it on here but I'm not sure I bookmarked it.
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Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:53 pm

What did you do to the spanner, just cut one down? I'll be doing this again soon and would appreciate any tips :D
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Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:22 pm

Its the Monkey method, as the guy that posted the info on here first username is Monkey :D

Some pics in my thread here - http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... &start=625
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Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:07 am

Thank you for the tips and the seals, I'll be buying another set soon Dan :thumb:

Heathy325, I bought my seals from DanThe.
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