How about "oil seals pushed up away from the valve guide"?
Happened to me once when I used guides without the groove in them to retain
the seal. Stripped the head before realising that I could've just popped
the seal back down with a toothpick through the coils of the springs.
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> Subject: Re: Remember Blue smoke?
> > Only other clue is it is worse after the car has been idling for a few
> > minutes, then as I take off it puts out a real cloud of blue which
> > then gradually dies away a bit to just a blue haze at the exhaust.
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> > Guy
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