Pull the motor. You can probably just weld the bosses solid again and redrill them. Or find a junkyard motor and swap it out.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, 12:16 PM Bob Rentfro via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Jim, remind me the X5’s year and engine? I have a BMW friend that may > chime in. > > AZBob > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Aug 29, 2022, at 11:49 AM, mitch--- via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > On 2022-08-29 14:34, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: > > > >> Have to pull the intake manifold and everything on the side. > >> Which _I_ didn't want to do. Which is why I hired the 'professional' > >> to take care of the problem. > >> He did a worse job than what I feared I would do. > > > > The last two times I hired a specialist to do something I didn't have > the proper tools for, they buggered it far worse than I could have properly > dreamed of. The one I remember best, I spent 4x as much time taking it to > them as it would have taken me to do it myself, and they considered the > damage they did to be proper work. That was over 20 years ago, and it was > the last straw for me. > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
