too take the head off? The reason being is that my car is smoking like a bitch & is getting worse. I was thinking of doing the rings, valve stems. Do i have to take the whole engine out?? I havent a clue in taking an engine to pieces. Shall i leave it to a garage to do or is it simple enough for me to do??

 

Our CVH engines are some of the easiest (imho and countless others) to work on. The head is not at all hard to take off, but once you take the head off it is debated that it slightly warps the alluminum, so it's good to go ahead and get a slight leveling done at a machine shop for ~20-30 or so. If you do decide on taking apart your engine yeah it would be really benefitual if you rework it all as well as hone job and rings.. it's much easier work to take the engine out than to have to work with it in the car if you're reworking it all, up to you, would be great if you had an engine stand. Very simple work, make sure you read up on it tho, it's really not that bad but don't get in over your head, have a strategy, grab one from the countless guys here that have done really exceptional work with the cvh.

Possibly the headgasket sounds to be letting an oilpassage get into one or more of the cyl's... but you could also have ring problems.. hard to tell.. any coolant passage issues you think? (check under your oil cap, if it's whitish oil look then you have water in your oil thus went past your piston rings from the combustion chamber, which was from the headgasket leaking a coolant passage and evap'ed up there)

gl to you man
-brad

 

Theres no water in the oil or oil in the water. Plus the smoke isnt white. Its blue, you canreally smell that its oil burning too. I dont really have the convidence in taking the engine completely out. I rather giv it a go wiv the engine in. To be honest i dont think its rings coz its not smoking all the time like ive had on a car in the past. I changed the oil stem seals not to long ago, but i think its the actual oil stems. How come the head will be warped if its fine now or will it be desterbed when the heads off??

 

the valve stem oil seals are a piece of piss to change.can do it in about an hour - dont even have to take the head off!!do this first and see if it fixes the problem.

 

Its not the oil stem seals i want changing though. Its the actual oil stems.

 

yes that is what oil stem seals are if the car smokes when at temp and idle it will be the piston rings most probs or if it smokes heavily on boost its turbo oil seals which are knackered.or if it is from just idling and it clears as you take off it is the oil seals.

 

I disagree. If it's smoking constantly, then it's going to be the rings, but by this point it will be pretty bad, and breathing really heavy.

If it's smoking on idle when warm, particulary if it's not instat when u let off, then thats turbo. Worn stem seals tend to be after u come back on power after over run