What seal has gone

After finally getting there on sorting the disco for mot, I have just found this leak. Please don't say this is serious of expensive!

Cheers
Steve

Is there supposed to be oil in the manifold

No, I'm assuming that there is a seal gone somewhere

gaskets not sealing ,but does engine breath heavy if you remove filler cap

No, I'm assuming that there is a seal gone somewhere

jamesmartin said:

gaskets not sealing ,but does engine breath heavy if you remove filler cap

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How do you mean

It appears to have stopped now?? It hasn't run out of oil to leak lol

gil said:

No, I'm assuming that there is a seal gone somewhere

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oil is either running down from rocker cover ,inlet manifold , or if coming from within the exhaust manifold ,it would be smoking somewhat ,

i had a similar leak, my turbo was fecked and filled the exhaust with oil..but it was smokey as feck for a few days before i coped on. proably not what you wanted to hear.

cheers gary

dv8i said:

i had a similar leak, my turbo was fecked and filled the exhaust with oil..but it was smokey as feck for a few days before i coped on. proably not what you wanted to hear.

cheers gary

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That's what I thought it was going to be, I just didn't want to believe my self. What was wrong with your turbo?

gil said:

That's what I thought it was going to be, I just didn't want to believe my self. What was wrong with your turbo?

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I think its your turbo you can clearly see it comming out of the gasket not dripping on the manifold the turbine inside that spins should have no play there is a big o ring type seal in there if that leaks oil goes into the system .

Right off with the turbo tomorrow it its

my turbo was done, the seals and bearings were all fecked. i was trying to ingore it but the smoke behind me was too much in the end, i bought a replacement core of ebay (latvia) and rebuilt it.

cheers gary

dv8i said:

my turbo was done, the seals and bearings were all fecked. i was trying to ingore it but the smoke behind me was too much in the end, i bought a replacement core of ebay (latvia) and rebuilt it.

cheers gary

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I been looking at those good then??

Did you remember to get the clip it doesn't come with the turbine does it ??

Cheers mate, just bought another one off ebay.

So it looks like its my piston rings that have gone

gil said:

So it looks like its my piston rings that have gone

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what makes you come to that conclusion?

Just took the exhaust manifold off and found a lot of oil in it. Just ran it up with it off and there was oil pouring out of the exhaust ports

Am I right that its the piston rings?

either rings/worn bores , if its just no 1 with oil coming out could be head gasket ,

It's all of them. I'm going to whip the head off, what signs can I look for once its off?

Steve