What could cause smoke here?

The other day the car broke down with a lot of smoke from the engine. I know there is air getting in the fuel system and a lot of diesel getting into the sump. The front cam seal popped out and if I pop it in again it just comes out along with a lot of smoke. I have a new one along with a set of new injector seals and washers and camcover gasket. I took the cam cover off and run the engine for literally just a few seconds. Even though the engine didn't warm up there was smoke coming from the timing chain area.



Could this be caused by excess diesel in sump? Should I just change injector seals and washers and oil an see what happens?

brianconwy said:

Could this be caused by excess diesel in sump? Should I just change injector seals and washers and oil an see what happens?

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I doubt that this has to do with diesel in the sump, you should make a compression test cos that seems to be exhaust gas which means it might be a crack somewhere

I thought the oil has to mist in there like that to lube the chain and cam lubes, when running lift the oil cap off and see if it’s chuffing out, if so it’s probably time for another good used engine

I have some other footage in the engine section.
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/does-this-look-terminal.347207/
There is a big loss in power due to lack of compression possibly,
Thanks.