Originally Posted by Alastair

Picked up a great W114 on Friday for a song....

Driving it home, I noticed when pulling away at lights or after descending a hill when powering up, a nice blue plume of oil-smoke for a couple of seconds which then clears to no smoke Doesn't appear to smoke on idle unless its been idling for some minutes when it slowly creeps in, and then on revving we get a nice cloud which clears if revs are held up....

Hoping its just the guide-seals......(Gotta start somewhere!....)

Compressions are pretty good, with little or no 'blow-by' --at least the compression rings are fairly good....

Is it possible to change the guide-seals without head removal from the engine? Not seen or worked on the M110.xx engines before, Usually I stick to Diesel types....

Any help appreciated....