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Offline tonyg

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Re: Why oh why is this happening again!!
« Reply #10 on: 07 December 2009, 13:14 »
Sounds like valve stems allmost definately, oil is getting past the valves at running temp because it's nice and thin, dropping into the chamber(s), then when you set of in 1st and rev the engine the oil gets burnt off which is why your only seeing it in 1st, if it was turbo seals it would smoke on boost and if it was rings you'd notice other problems and same with head gasket etc imo

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Re: Why oh why is this happening again!!
« Reply #11 on: 07 December 2009, 13:36 »
Ok so is the stem seals a big job?

It's definately not smoking during drive or boost and still has power(clutch permitant :grin:).

I hope it's not the turbo seals as it was suppose to have come off a 11k mile Octavia and i paid £300 for it :angry:

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Re: Why oh why is this happening again!!
« Reply #12 on: 07 December 2009, 13:39 »
I reckon stem seals aswell mare. Its a head off job not had it done before I would say about 300-400 but thats just a guess?
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Re: Why oh why is this happening again!!
« Reply #13 on: 07 December 2009, 14:34 »
It depends how competant you are and how far you want to go, every time i've took the head off a car i've replaced the water pump, belts and tensioner as a matter of course but this doesn't always need to be done you can just stick new belts on if your budget is as tight as a nuns chuff.

Personally i'd take the head off myself and drop it off at a decent machine shop and get them to do the work, you may aswell buy a full top end gasket set which will come with the valve stem seals and you may aswell get it skimmed for good measure, machine shop should charge you around £100 for a skim and replace the seals/stirp and rebuild the head ready for you to fit, and get them to replace any worn valves while they are at it which will be around a tenner each (usually one or two are worn), apart from that i recon about £100 for a gasket set then your belts and what ever else you want to do...
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Re: Why oh why is this happening again!!
« Reply #14 on: 15 December 2009, 11:46 »
So is there anything else i can check/do before i go ahead with the valve stem seals......hoping it might be a smaller/cheaper job... :sad:

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Re: Why oh why is this happening again!!
« Reply #15 on: 15 December 2009, 14:11 »
Piston Rings?

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