Have replaced Rocker Cover Gasket, still smoking?
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I've replaced my rocker cover gasket, car has been in driveway a few nights monitoring for any leaks, I made sure to burn off the excess oil after fitting also.
Had the engine running whilst I pumped up the tyres (20 mins?) then went for a 2 minute drive only spooling the turbo once. Pic below - loads of smoke coming from the exhaust manifold, but rocker cover looks dry! Very small spot of oil now on the driveway too :/ any ideas what else might be leaking? Bit gutted as was about to do MOT prep haha. Thanks, Jonny |
Did you replace just the rocker cover gasket or do the full set,spark plug gasket,bolt seals and half moon seals?
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If you are lucky it's only burning the oil that leaked when you did the work, it's quite a messy job.
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It was on the driver's side so I bought the full kit, inc. oil seperator gasket (it's a Turbo 2000.)
This is actually my second drive in it, I did another drive a couple days back pretty much completely off-turbo with only a little smoke which then disappeared so I assumed it had all burned off. Read somewhere sometimes the Turbo Oil Return Feed can fail? Really just trying to think what else it could possibly be. Visual inspection shows a dry rocker cover so I don't think it's due to fitting the gasket incorrectly. |
finger crossed for U - hoping it is just the excess oil burning off !!
was it smoking much before you did the job? |
I did the rocker cover gaskets on both sides on my blob and it's virtually impossible not to get oil on the exhaust manifold (drivers side) and as I only do 10mins each way to work it took months for all the oil to fully burn off. The burning oil smell only completely disappeared after a 4hr round trip on the motorway!
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Ha, I'll keep my fingers crossed then, going in for MOT soon and don't want to coat the garage in oil! :eek:
It wasn't smoking much and the smoke had gone away at idle so seeing it come back was worrying! Ah well, here's hoping. |
Originally Posted by JonnyTenny
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Ha, I'll keep my fingers crossed then, going in for MOT soon and don't want to coat the garage in oil! :eek:
It wasn't smoking much and the smoke had gone away at idle so seeing it come back was worrying! Ah well, here's hoping. I also found that when you change the gasket oil leaks along the bottom of the engine and slowly drips down. If you can get under there and wipe with a rag. I had a turbo leak oil and it doesn't leak onto anything hot enough to burn. |
Just an update - car is completely smoke and leak free. Job done, turns out I was just paranoid :lol1: cheers!
Jonny |
did mine two weeks ago - was worried having read your post - but all was fine. Bit daunting to start with, but was quite straightforward. Only worrying bit was nearly catching new gasket on valves when putting cover back on.....!
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