Thought I could smell a faint but familiar whiff of engine oil last week. Yesterday I noticed a small pool of oil underneath the front.
Here we go again. Pulled the o/s coil pack and sure enough, the plug wells are full of oil. Cleaned the breathers, then dismantled further and removed the cam cover.
Rooted through my boxes of bitz and found one last pair of new gaskets, but only 5 o rings. Found some more o rings the same diameter in another box, found my old tube of black goo to be still soft and set about cleaning and reassembling.
All done now, don't need it tonight as I use the welsh hatchback for work, so will leave it until tomorrow, then start it and hopefully find no more oil leak.
n/s gasket was changed a couple of years ago, but pulled the coil pack out to check, and was glad to see it is dry as a bone.
Planning on welding replacement metal into the spare wheel well soon, then remove sill covers and see what I find there.
It will then be MOT time, so possibly more work to come. No rest for the wicked according to swmbo.