Dane

Hello all, i wondered if anyone can help or had the same prob, had a new oil cam seal fitted, which is fine now, but soon after, oil started leaking from the rocker cover gasket, which drips onto exhaust pipe causing smoke and a annoying smell when stationary. I had it sorted so i believe, but a week later went back to garage, still leaking. So back it went to garage to do again, picked it up two weeks ago, told problem sorted, but car goes back in again monday as it's still leaking. Anyone any ideas if there might be something to cause this or is it just bad fitting of the gasket, but inspection looks gasket was fitted properly.
Thanks in advance.
Dane

RON

A mate had this trouble for ages, the garage changed the gasket several times.. then took more apart and found a hairline crack in on of the spacer rings or somethin at the front of one of the cams..... when it got hot the crack grew and leaked oil.....

Dane

The garage have today said it may be a warped rocker cover, has this ever been known?

RON

It wouldn't be the first, BUT they are relatively flexible, so i would suspect tht even if warped when bolted up it would go flat again... but what do i know..??

Dane

Alot more than me. lol

StephenPope

Mine was in and out of the garage several times. I eventually left it and it sorted itself out!!! I was advised that as this area constantly sits in oil internally, the oil is more likely to seep through (imagine a sponge getting saturated.)

Dane

I would be happy to leave it for a while, to see if it sorts itself out, but oil is dripping onto exhaust and have smoke coming from bonnet, which is very off putting and thinking i'll be needing to get out the fire extinguisher out at any moment, plus the smell.