oil in inlet manifold
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hi,

my turbo mini has been smoking when its ticking over, so i checked the plenum for oil to see if it was the turbo seals, the plenum was bone dry. Just taken the head off as i thought it could be the stem seals, when i took the inlet manifold off there was a small pool of oil in both of inlet bores on the head, is this down to the stem seals or something different?

when i took the seals off they all seemed to be seated correctly and the only real thing that i can see wrong with them is the bottoms of them seemed to be skirted out, im new to jobs like this so a point in the right direction would be great!!!

yup seals or guides most likely mate. Get the same symptoms on my car.

thanks for that mate, think ill get the guides changed as well then!

Steve 1275 experienced a similar problem which turned out to be a valve guide loose in the head.

Just checked the guides they seem tight in the head but the valves stems have quite a bit of play in the guides.

Got a quote today £40.00 plus vat for new guides and re cut seats. seems quite reasonable to me.

That seems like good value alright. some of the lads on here could sort you out.
Where are you based?

Yes i moved to the darkside

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I took the head in today to w.brown in Halifax, double checked the price because i thought it sounded cheap, definatly £40 plus vat

I pick it back up on tuesday so ill let you know how it looks