bigrabbelfast
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Registered: 18th Mar 06
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failed on excessive blue smoke,reacon its the stem oil seals
is it a big job changng them and is there anything else should change while the heads of?
[Edited on 10-10-2007 by willay]
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ed
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Stem seals usually only smoke if the engine has been left standing for a while, the engine then smokes for a little bit, then stops once the excess oil has been burnt off.
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bigrabbelfast
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as usuall it only started when i got to the test centre.
does it when going downhill sumtimes and when the cars tickng over aswell.
any ideas people
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matts_16v
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could have a cracked piston ring mate.
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Ash_EP3
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mine has blue smoke sometimes on start up and it also gives off a bit of smoke as well when driven hard
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