Leak solved!....we'll see

Going to pick up my RR from garage tomorrow. The mechanic is a family friend, and seriously knows his stuff. He washed down the engine, and started it, let it warm up and soon found the characteristic oil leak...which I THOUGHT was coming from the valley gasket. It turned out that the dipstick tube (or something much similar, I'll get him to go over it with me tomorrow) was not connected properly, hence spewing oil onto the exhaust, and causing the godawful stench.
We'll see. He says that the 'main leak is fixed', so I', presuming it's that one!

L

and...no.
Still leaking

Hi

It cannot be the valley gasket because there are no oil galleys anywhere near it

I know this because for the past 3 months I have been fighting with mine and it's cylinder heads blowing, although today I finally fixed it.

So other than the Vally gasket, what it could be is the pair of valley gasket seals under the valley gasket (Two rubber seals around 6 inches long) If these have started to do whatever rubber does when it gets old or they are not sealing the head area that much you are going to get leaks of oil and mud and who knows what.

Or it could be the rocker box gaskets in a bad way (like most older ones)

Either isn't hard to fix just time consuming, because the need to remove all the inlet manifold and it's associated components.

Hope this is some kind of help.

Charlotte

now it starts to leak on the OTHER side!
Charlotte - plugged that ****ing maddening leak from the exhaust so I'm well chuffed. I'd say the underneath just needs a blasting and then i'll see where it's coming from. But how do you turn a RR over to clean underneath lol

And it seems to be coming from the gearbox area. Nothing serious, leak-wise, just annoying. May just put in some shields for that area of pipe, so it just runs off and doesn't get incinerated