Terry said: > I fear you may be right. When I started up this morning it was much > much worse than yesterday. I removed the rocker cover and there appears > to be a lot of this hazy mist coming up through the various orifices in > the cylinder head. Removing the side cover and examining the injector > pump area leaves me with the impression that nothing has gone wrong > there. I'm going to let the whole thing cool right down and try > retightening the cylinder head - it might just be blowing across the > gasket, although I'm not overly hopeful of this curing the problem. > > I've just spoken with Peter Thompson (Lister specialist), and he thought > it more likely to be a gasket problem - oh and they don't have any head > gaskets in at the moment. Expecting some in the next couple of months! >
Quite possible for it to be a head gasket IF there is an rocker shaft oil return aperture/gallery fairly close to a combustion chamber and, if so, would give similar symptoms. Give the torquing down a try but, in my experience on more modern engines once a gasket is gone, it's gone, and retorquing rarely fixes the problem. If the gasket has leaked across like you and Pete suspect (hope) then, don't forget, that there will be slight soot build up in that leak area and you're torquing down onto that soot which isn't ideal. Bonne chance. Roger
