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Originally Posted by Pussiwillow
New to n55 platform, so pardon my lack of knowledge, when people do a valve cover gasket job, they recommend replacement of the valve cover as well, is the failed cap the reason they do so? More of a hey were this far and they fail at xx miles on average etc, so this fix would allow you to reuse the valve cover (if that's the reason for replacement)
Sorry haven't looked into it since mines not leaking so figured I'd ask
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Ya that's part of it. In addition, depending on the mileage, the VC can have shrunk a little which will reduce the service life of the gasket repair. I personally didn't like the idea of this particular hack repair so I opted to replace my VC when I did the gasket (55k miles).
If I was under 50k miles I'd reuse the cover.