Oil in #2 cylinder....ugh Head Gasket??

[MonkeyMadness]

Driving in to work today and enjoying my self, shifted in to 5th and
got a spudder in the motor..
Just that quick...
First thing that ran through my head way i broke a rocker arm...
pulled over. Turned off the car. looked over everything found nothing wrong. So I started the car. turned right on, but with a flutter..
Next thought was fouled plugs.. pulled and plugwires and found #2 had no change.. got home changed all the plugs started the car right up, but still, has a flutter... Check elc. I got Spark!
Pulled #2 and found alot of oil.. soked piston with carb cleaner and turned over the motor with plug out to blow the shit out..
replaced plug.. Ran perfact for about 4sec. Then the flutter came back..
Pulled the plug.. more oil.... not alot but enough to foul the plug...
????????Oh and get this as i was driving home I saw no smoke from the tailpipe or while running it in my garage got no smoke???????

Could it be a head gasket..?
Valve guide?
Injector??
Please need help..



thx
jer

[Adrian_Visser]

I don't know if it would be the HG, are there even oil passages adjacent to the cylinder sleeve? I would worry more about a broken oil scraper ring TBH.

[M-technik-3]

Mileage? Mods to car and so on? Sounds like a rings, drain oil look for signs of metal.

[jlevie]

The first thing I'd do would be to change the ignitions wires, distributor cap and rotor, unless they are pretty new. Then I'd check to see if injector #2 was firing. If none of that made any difference I'd run compression and leak down tests.

[MonkeyMadness]

Mileage? Mods to car and so on? Sounds like a rings, drain oil look for signs of metal.

169XXXmiles that i know of...
Miller W.A.R. chip and MAF, running a stock tune on 91gas
other than that its pretty much stock

The first thing I'd do would be to change the ignitions wires, distributor cap and rotor, unless they are pretty new. Then I'd check to see if injector #2 was firing. If none of that made any difference I'd run compression and leak down tests.

OK I got spark..
New cap and rotor, about 400miles on them
Injectors working well...
wires have about 1,400miles
haven't done a leak down test yet..

[MonkeyMadness]

This blows...!
Has anybody done a tracktor build to an M20 in a E30?
Looks like that's what I'll have to do after the Sema show..
So i should be down for about the next 3 to 4 weeks..ugh

this is so lame, fucking germans! :hitler:

[Kershaw]

i have the same problem, except i have oil in cylinders 5 and 6.

:/

sorry man, i feel your pain.

[MonkeyMadness]

Could it be a bad valve stem seal.. I few porsche guys at work and a muscle car/chevy guy all said "valve seals" seperately...ugh
I guess I'll pull the valve cover and inspect...
Kershaw: so what are you doing about it do you have a plan of attack.
or are you still baffled as I am...?

[!kid]

same hear cyl 5 and 6 plugs are loaded with oil and gunk. i did a compression test this past weekend front to rear 155,145,153,153,130,155 the bentley manuel said it could be a bad head gasket for a sudden drop like that. plus my motor blows blue smoke some times. my guess is valve seals and or head gasket. and hope its not the rings:(

[Adrian_Visser]

The most obvious sign of worn out valve stem oil seals and/or valve guides is puffing blue smoke when you let off the gas at higher rpms. If you are engine braking going down a hill and you are leaving a smoke screen behind you that is a dead giveaway.

[lennon]

The most obvious sign of worn out valve stem oil seals and/or valve guides is puffing blue smoke when you let off the gas at higher rpms. If you are engine braking going down a hill and you are leaving a smoke screen behind you that is a dead giveaway.

if my m20 isn't leaving a cloud of blue smoke when i let off, i know i need to add some oil

[MonkeyMadness]

same hear cyl 5 and 6 plugs are loaded with oil and gunk. i did a compression test this past weekend front to rear 155,145,153,153,130,155 the bentley manuel said it could be a bad head gasket for a sudden drop like that. plus my motor blows blue smoke some times. my guess is valve seals and or head gasket. and hope its not the rings:(

Gawd I'm hoping it's a head gasket then...

I'm leaving no smoke that I know of.........?

if my m20 isn't leaving a cloud of blue smoke when i let off, i know i need to add some oil

[MonkeyMadness]

Damn It!

I was the first thing that I thought it was!

I broke the intake valve rocker arm on the #2 cylinder..

How do I fix this with out pulling the head?

GOD DAMN GERMANS:hitler:
You would think they were smart enough the
build a car thats American driver proof... :???: