Timing belt and blue smoke

[nocrow]

Just to be on the safe side I had my timing belt / water pump replaced yesterday on my 90 Laser 1G (got it cheap a couple of years ago). The mechanic noticed blue smoke when he first started the car. Told me it was probably valve seals and I tend to agree. My question is...... Why did it just start smoking after T-belt change? It never smoked before. The car runs great other than the blue smoke that fades after driving a few miles...Has anyone replaced seals on their own... How difficult it is..

 

[exzercist]

well you either have to take the head off which you need a hg, take the cams out springs all that crap and pop them on. or you can use compressed air to take the pressure off the springs and then take all the stuff off. the hardest part doin the first way is taking off manolds and the turbo basically everything plus ur timing belt, and cam gears.can be down in day depends how good you are with cars and what ur pace is.

 

[turboholic]

It never smoked before. The car runs great other than the blue smoke that fades after driving a few miles...Has anyone replaced seals on their own... How difficult it is..

-vfaq.com has intruction on the process of replacing the valve seals and the tool to do it, you don't have to remove the head, the correct term is valve stem seal.

-Get your hand on to this compressor
you can pump compressed air into the combustion chamber to hold the valves up, if don't have compressed air, simply hand crank the piston to the top of the cycle on that particular cylinder you're working on. The timing belt will have to come off the cam sprockets so if you don't feel comfortable with that, take it to the pro, but there's always a 1st time, feel free to ask if you have more ?.

-btw, the timing belt only need to come off the cam sprockets, but there's not need to touch the bottom half of the timing belt, so if the shop tell you they have to charge you labor on redoing the timng belt, tell them about that. read the timing belt replacement at the vfaq.com .

 

[Defiant]

http://vfaq.com/mods/Valvestem-seals.html