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cjh1925 cjh1925 is offline
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Thanks for your response. To answer your questions:

1. It turns over with the starter with all plugs removed. I only jogged it and it blew oil out about 20 ft! All cylinders have a large amount of oil in them. It hasn't drained down after a week and a half so the rings are good. It is supposed to be warmer the next several days so I am going to suck the oil out.
2. My average trip is about 13 miles going to work.
3. I live in Massachusettes so yes, it is cold. Car is usually garaged although now it is out so my truck can be under cover since I am using that for commuting.
4. No oil sludge in coolant
5. Car has chain, no timing belt.
6. Car made no noise when this happened. I don't plan to do a compression check since I am pretty certain that there is no mechanical issue with the engine. The fact that all 6 cylinders are affected says to me that the oil has to be coming from the intake manifold.

I am sure that there is some system that connects into the intake manifold that caused this but I am not knowlegable enough about the systems to figure it out yet. There is something called a DISA valve that is attached to the manifold that I am suspicious of, but I don't know what it's function is. This is a bad time to be working outside on a car what with the cold and the fact that it is the holiday season that limits my time to work this problem. The Bentley manual has proven to be worthless in this instance. Thanks for any help.

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2000 528i
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