VT oil burning on inspection

[Jamesmaier]

Hi guys, i was looking at buying my first car and was looking at a VT. I saw onein wonderful condition with the RWC, but after taking it for a drive, i opened the bonnet and found smoke coming from the manifold on the drivers side, oil must have been leaking and couldnt tell where from, but it was def hitting the manifold and you could smell and see the smoke from under the engine area. If anyone can help me out with telling me what this could possibly be and how much for the worst case senario? Thanks for your time guys

 

[227shanno]

sounds like you dodged a bullet not buying it mate.

 

[vt s]

Most common cause would be just a leaking rocker cover gasket very common on all cars
Possibly also be valley cover but not as likely

 

[Jamesmaier]

i was thinking the worst maybe a head gasket at worst, just not sure how much to repair, but willing to give it a go if the parts are cheap enough

 

[vt s]

If it was head gasket you would of noticed it while driving and while you had it running.

 

[pablo]

My moneys on a leaking rocker cover gasket, OR, some one may have spilt some oil when topping up the engine oil.

 

[Jamesmaier]

well got told today it was the rocket gaskter, good guess
thanks for the help guys

 

[Kolin]

You guys are awesome,

I just come back from checkin out my brothers VR and it was doin the same thing, and after like an hour of cleaning oil degreasing it and stuff yeah well I was telling him it could be the rocker gasket but was a bit unsure,so yeah hence the reason why Im on here reading up. only diff is is that its leaking from both sides so I will tackle it on Saturday and hope its just that, will let yous know might find the bastid that overfilled the oil...lol...