Smoking gun? (well breather actually)

[Greenlanekit]

Dear All , on a LR S3 the large breather on the left of the engine with a cap on it roughly about 1/3rd of the size of a coke can, if there is alot of smoke from buring oil, what would that be? pistons rings ? and if so how easy a job is it to replace them?

cheers..PS 24th April see my event ;-)

[iianorthants]

worth just taking off all your breather pipes and giving them a good clean with petrol to remove all the crap .  including the tophat part on rocker cover. if glogged can cause oil to be sucked up ..... and worth a try as cheaper and easier then taking head off.

[hobbit]

If you have a lot of crank case pressure, ie take cap off and put your hand over the hole to see what resistance there is against it, gives you some idea, or do a compression check on the cyinders to make sure, mine was using oil, did a decoke and cut it down, compression was ok, but I think I have to replace the oil rings now, along with another carb, and it might actually run without the smoke screen then :lol: