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Just did the intake gasket on my E58 the smoke problem is history

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Was the gasket that bad that it sucked oil from inside the engine into the intake?

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I can't speak for what happened on this E58, but that is more or less what happened to mine. It had a small crack on the right side gasket on the bottom. Presumably, when letting off the gas, it was pulling the oil through the crack and burning it through the exhaust and combustion chamber, thus causing the blue smoke and oil consumption. The vacuum was pulling oil out of the valley; there was slight discoloration in the corresponding intake runner.

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