tr7v8 wrote:
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
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Had I bought a Ford Focus it would have been worse. 