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Changed my rocker cover gasket then l put everything back together on rb25de neo and go to start her up, runs happily for 2 minutues then i notice she is losing oil from right hand side cam cover, i freak and turn off the engine as it started to get smoky. i said screw this ill work in to the night and pulled evetything apart again and noticed where it leaked the screws wete very tights and thats a no no for cam covers so i took the cam cover off and put gasket in again and tightened it up but not to two tight this time and started the car up again. but this timts smoking the same area but i dont see any large oil dump like last time. Could it be the oil on the manifold steaming up ? Any suggestions or thoughts will help thanks.

Edited by starwarz

Which side? Turbo side or inlet side? Oil may just be burning off the manifold

Looks like inlet side from what I can make out

But yeah as JEZ said it could just be oil burning off somewhere from the oil that leaked out.

As for the doing the cam cover up to tight, I still dont really understand that. As long as your not doing it up to some rediculous torque, it should be fine

Its a non turbo, and its the right hand side cam cover at the back near the fire wall where the leak occured. Shluld be the exhaust side from what i know the one closest the airbox. anyway it stops steaming as soon as i stop the engine

Edited by starwarz

i pinpointed the area the smoke is coming from, and i provided picuture with the red circle to show where its coming from ! i took it out today for at least half an hour of driving with no drama, my first stop light was embarrasing you could see the smoke lifting from the bonnet, but im happy to see its smoking up less and less. Its gotta be the oil that escape on the first sealing thats causing this.

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Changed my rocker cover gasket then l put everything back together on rb25de neo and go to start her up, runs happily for 2 minutues then i notice she is losing oil from right hand side cam cover, i freak and turn off the engine as it started to get smoky. i said screw this ill work in to the night and pulled evetything apart again and noticed where it leaked the screws wete very tights and thats a no no for cam covers so i took the cam cover off and put gasket in again and tightened it up but not to two tight this time and started the car up again. but this timts smoking the same area but i dont see any large oil dump like last time. Could it be the oil on the manifold steaming up ? Any suggestions or thoughts will help thanks.

That is the intake cam cover. Your showing that its leaked from the exhaust side cam cover.

And yes its just smoking off the exhaust.

That is the intake cam cover. Your showing that its leaked from the exhaust side cam cover.

And yes its just smoking off the exhaust.

sorry about that i had a feeling i was saying something wrong, im happy thats cleared up.

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