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I've got an issue with a forged engine I bought a while back.

I bought the engine being told it needed valve stem seals as it was burning oil (in what looked like cylinders 1 and 2 as the ports were slightly oily). It's only done 2000 miles since rebuild and from lifting the cam cover I believe this as it's brand new inside.

Now I filled it with fresh oil and got it running. I've ran it a few times and literally moved the car in and out of the garage a few times but only really warmed it up to temperature once in which it was incredibly smoky and stank of burning oil.

Now I dropped the oil the other day as there were a few oil leaks which I needed to stop. And it looks like this..

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All milky. But nothing under oil cap or anything. So my question is can valve stem seals cause this? Or is this a bigger issue? I'm gonna have to change headgasket to do valve stem seals anyway but wanna know it's not a bigger problem.. Is this coolant getting in the oil?

Anyone had this before? The engine was sat for about 18 months in my garage in the car so I don't know if it was condensation inside engine.. I don't know again if that could cause this.

If anyone could help that would be great :)

Thanks

Sam

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Yeah that's what I thought, need to order a compression tester and see if that throws up anything. Just hoping it's just that so when I get valve stem seals done I can solve it.. And it doesn't need a full rebuild :/

Posted

Have you got the vacuum and coolant hoses on the throttle body the right way round?

Damn you beat me to it, but yeah mistake which is very easily made

Aamir

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Hmm I hope not! Lol

I'll check later.

Thanks guys.

If I did, would that cause excessive smoking when running though? Like white smoke

Indeed :)

Posted

Fingers crossed its a stupid mistake like this! Anyone got a pic of how it should be connected at all?

They go like this. I must have linked this into about 20 threads by now haha.

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Hope its an easy fix for ya :)

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