Hi everyone, new here so hope this is in the right place?

So a couple of weeks ago, I'm driving along living the dream when I start to hear a knocking/ ticking type noise, I pull over. Lots of oil all over the engine bay. (Primarily on the passanger side, it had sprayed all up the Exhaust down pipe. So I get a friend to run some oil out to me. We top it up and I drive cautiously home. The noise stopped for a while but was still sort of there. Spent a couple days tinkering, degreasing it to see where it had leaked from etc.

I decided it was the head gasket as it was burning tons of oil and the gaskett had chaffed at the rear of the block. So I whipped it off and have had the cylinder head skimmed and ground the valves in etc. it's all ready to be but back together.

I've just had a read over the Hayes manual again before I put it back together and it says that knocking or ticking noises can sometime be a cracked piston ring.

So my question is... Going off what I've described plus the video do you think it was just the head or is it worth having a look at the Pistons while it's already stripped down?

It's a 200tfi 1990 Defender

Thanks,

Richard

Bumblebee said:

Hi everyone, new here so hope this is in the right place?

So a couple of weeks ago, I'm driving along living the dream when I start to hear a knocking/ ticking type noise, I pull over. Lots of oil all over the engine bay. (Primarily on the passanger side, it had sprayed all up the Exhaust down pipe. So I get a friend to run some oil out to me. We top it up and I drive cautiously home. The noise stopped for a while but was still sort of there. Spent a couple days tinkering, degreasing it to see where it had leaked from etc.

I decided it was the head gasket as it was burning tons of oil and the gaskett had chaffed at the rear of the block. So I whipped it off and have had the cylinder head skimmed and ground the valves in etc. it's all ready to be but back together.

I've just had a read over the Hayes manual again before I put it back together and it says that knocking or ticking noises can sometime be a cracked piston ring.

So my question is... Going off what I've described plus the video do you think it was just the head or is it worth having a look at the Pistons while it's already stripped down?

It's a 200tfi 1990 Defender

Thanks,

Richard

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A quick visit to the 'introduce yourself' section followed by putting your problem into the 'Defender' section might get you a better response.

Brilliant. Thanks

Sorted?

Nope I changed the head gaskett built it all back up. Turned it over. Sounded great then as I was sat there it just started to come back.

I have no idea.