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Last night the Rover spent the evening outside. It was about -25 degrees F with wind chill last night. This morning at about 4 degrees F I started the car and let it idle for about 5 minutes. About 5 minutes of driving, I had lots of oil smoke.
Popped the hood and was watching oil dribble quickly out the back of the valve cover onto the exhaust manifold on both sides of the engine. What on earth am I dealing with here. Is this really cold enough to cause such a huge failure in the gaskets. Are we dealing with a combination of aluminum engine contraction and brittle cold gasket ? Upon inspection of the engine, it looks like I was leaking oil along both side of both valve gaskets and possibly also from the head gaskets.
I am now wondering what the health of the engine seals are. Is it just the cold that did this, or a combination of cold weather and gaskets that are in really bad shape. In that 10 minutes of driving, I lost about 1 quart of oil (serious leak).
Any thoughts?
Popped the hood and was watching oil dribble quickly out the back of the valve cover onto the exhaust manifold on both sides of the engine. What on earth am I dealing with here. Is this really cold enough to cause such a huge failure in the gaskets. Are we dealing with a combination of aluminum engine contraction and brittle cold gasket ? Upon inspection of the engine, it looks like I was leaking oil along both side of both valve gaskets and possibly also from the head gaskets.
I am now wondering what the health of the engine seals are. Is it just the cold that did this, or a combination of cold weather and gaskets that are in really bad shape. In that 10 minutes of driving, I lost about 1 quart of oil (serious leak).
Any thoughts?