Freelander Safari
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Hi there!
Freelander Safari here. As the name suggests, I am in the land where the term "Safari" was first coined and the stomping ground of Land Rovers after they roved out of Solihull. Land rovers are much loved and revered to this day in Kenya.
I joined this forum to find a solution for a particularly troublesome English expatriate - a year 2000 model Freelander 1. It was registered in the UK and exported to Nairobi in the mid aughts. It is the famous - or infamous depending on where you land on the internet - Rover 1.8 K series petrol engine.
I'm the second owner. It has had the head-gasket done - according to the records I have - at least 3 times, two of those time by me (the first time when the timing belt gave way and most recently when a cooling pipe failed when a long cross country drive in the Africa mid-summer heat). After the head-gasket was done, it was fine for a while, peppy even but it has not developed a bad smoking habit. The mechanic assures me that its not the piston rings. I believe him. He has worked on a much tougher job, overhauling a Subaru legacy GT engine for me in the past. I did an oil change myself the last time and he says that I might have used a lighter engine oil (10w-30) instead of the recommended 10w-40. He says that it is this that is causing the smoking.
The symptoms in detail as follows: It smokes when driving. When on the high it sometimes stops. Its is not the blueish smoke of oil but rather a light white wispy smoke. It does not smell sweet and the coolant levels are consistent so I have ruled out coolant in the system. It does however consume oil. When I inspected the vacuum lines on top of the engine leading to the intake plenum and they seem to have quite a bit of oil in them. Somehow oil is getting there and then being burnt creating the smoke. Mind you, I am not a mechanic but like to dabble and tinker under engine bays for simple jobs. I think its some sort of emissions thing or it could be as the mechanic says a matter getting the right engine oil. Has anybody ever experienced anything like this?
Any advice, direction or guidance will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Cheers,
Freelander Safari.
Freelander Safari here. As the name suggests, I am in the land where the term "Safari" was first coined and the stomping ground of Land Rovers after they roved out of Solihull. Land rovers are much loved and revered to this day in Kenya.
I joined this forum to find a solution for a particularly troublesome English expatriate - a year 2000 model Freelander 1. It was registered in the UK and exported to Nairobi in the mid aughts. It is the famous - or infamous depending on where you land on the internet - Rover 1.8 K series petrol engine.
I'm the second owner. It has had the head-gasket done - according to the records I have - at least 3 times, two of those time by me (the first time when the timing belt gave way and most recently when a cooling pipe failed when a long cross country drive in the Africa mid-summer heat). After the head-gasket was done, it was fine for a while, peppy even but it has not developed a bad smoking habit. The mechanic assures me that its not the piston rings. I believe him. He has worked on a much tougher job, overhauling a Subaru legacy GT engine for me in the past. I did an oil change myself the last time and he says that I might have used a lighter engine oil (10w-30) instead of the recommended 10w-40. He says that it is this that is causing the smoking.
The symptoms in detail as follows: It smokes when driving. When on the high it sometimes stops. Its is not the blueish smoke of oil but rather a light white wispy smoke. It does not smell sweet and the coolant levels are consistent so I have ruled out coolant in the system. It does however consume oil. When I inspected the vacuum lines on top of the engine leading to the intake plenum and they seem to have quite a bit of oil in them. Somehow oil is getting there and then being burnt creating the smoke. Mind you, I am not a mechanic but like to dabble and tinker under engine bays for simple jobs. I think its some sort of emissions thing or it could be as the mechanic says a matter getting the right engine oil. Has anybody ever experienced anything like this?
Any advice, direction or guidance will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Cheers,
Freelander Safari.
