Burning Smell?

[Shahel]

on take off when i take it up to 4000rpm been happening the last two days, any ideas?

[simple1]

Oil from the rocker gasket hitting the manifolds....................

[JonnyX]

Oil from the rocker gasket hitting the manifolds....................

2nd. Have the same problem myself right now. When you stop the car,
lift the bonnet up. You may get white smoke coming up through then engine
bay.

[quattrosteph]

Sound like like rocker cover seals to me or the tiny ones on the back of the engine ( for cam tensionner...). It did on mine , the leak was of course behindthe head and it was dripping on the turbo and down pipe. So of course very smelly inside the car as well.

The best thing is to replace the all lot in the same time: rocker cover seals+ seals for cam tensionners.

I just remind you that oil on hot turbo can.........catch fire So get it fix as quick as possible!!!

[Jarv]

Hi Shahel,

Agree with everything that's been said here. If you're lucky, it's a cam-cover gasket, if you're not, like I wasn't, it's a leaking rear drivers side cam-tensioner oil seal gasket. Doug at MRC did mine about a month ago. Whilst it was apart he did all the belts, water-pump, oil servive, new plugs, etc. No change out of £1,200. He also found a few leaks on the turbo system so, fo me, it was good value.

Tell-tail sign of leaking cam cover or rear cam-tensioner is oil smoke coming out of the drivers side front wheel arch as it drips onto the cat.

Hope this helps, and good luck!

Jarv

[Devil]

mine also has this problem, already changed the rocker cover seal and still has this problem.
Does anyone have order number for the seals for cam tensionners.