The Cart Before the Horse: Spec 3 Build

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you should only need hondabond/yamabond/3bond/etc on the areas where there's a corner if you put it anywhere else it will leak

It’s a BMW m5x, if you don’t use a little liquid gasket around the moons, transitions between front timing cover and head and yes the corners; it WILL leak pretty quickly. Doing a valve cover gasket job is one of the first things I always end up having to do on 90% of the m5x/s5x motors I have worked on.

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you should only need hondabond/yamabond/3bond/etc on the areas where there's a corner if you put it anywhere else it will leak

This. And not much of it.

Definitely recommend cleaning any machined surfaces with scotchbrite and brake clean before reassembly in the future just to have a good clean mating surface.

Have you been around Taylor? Don’t let him near scotchbrite. The abrasive runs into crevices and into oil and can cause significant wear in the motor. You have to be really careful with scotchbrite.


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