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I've got a (how I would describe it) a drip drop oil leak. The problem only surfaces once the car has been left over night. It appears to be leaking from the back of the rocker cover gasket? near the bulk head. Its a bit of a tight space to investigate from the top down.

When I start the car there is a lot of smoke as if its burning it off from the exhaust. I think its dropping down the manifold while parked up. It eventually burns off but now the leak is so bad you'd not want to be sitting in the car in traffic for too long.

If its not leaking from the rocket cover gasket, what else might be a cause?

Thanks in advance.

Could be cam box, not unknown. Needs a fair amount of work to rectify. Best done when the belts need doing.

Your telling me. Mines just started leaking again. So P**** off with it. Top of the head on mine can't be true. I told them to skim it but looks like they bodged it. Spent today driving to porscheapart to get a complete head & cam box. (Picked one off a complete engine with no signs of a leak.) Took it to CNC heads at Stockport to let Rick recon it for me! Going to cost a bomb but it might actually be right when hes finished. It will also get proper 5 angle valve seats at the same time. Both head & cambox will get a skim to be sure. New guides & oil seals of course. Nothing worse than the smell of burning oil as you drive. The rear cam seal can leak & run along the lip of the box but if it's leaking bad just start the thing & watch were it comes out! Original gasket is paper & once it starts to leak it blows out & is useless. Lindsey racing do a cometic one that will at least only weep if things go wrong. About £20 & you can reuse it 3 times. You'le need a cambelt as Jim says! Don't overtighten the bolts as that scaps the head! (Mines full of helicoils thanks to the numptys that worked on it before )

JJ being nosey how much did he charge you for a 944 head? I was looking at doing my own but it is terribly time consuming.

You don't want to know. This Cars got under my skin. I should have scraped it. But it's going to get fixed one way or another now! I think my original head was recoverable but not without taking the car off the road for 2 weeks. Then how do I take it to get it machined? Bit nuts running this as a daily drive. Saw an S type Jag Supercharged type R go though the auction at 3.5K. 80K miles. Very tidy. Could have bought it twice for what this has cost..........Couldn't run it though Had I bought a Ford Focus it would have been worse.