My beautiful (well to me, most people would say she's a bit tired...) Bessie has done 145k and is going in for a cambelt and water pump with a friend today (£50 + parts, can't complain). I was having a poke about under the bonnet, noticed the rocker cover is leaking virtually all the way round and the dipstick wasn't fully seated... Now to be fair the dipstick could well be my fault for not putting in fully (I'll check on it again soon). Paranoia is telling me at this sort of mileage and with these symptoms it could well be excessive crankcase pressure related to engine wear. Am I being a flid or could I be looking along the right lines here? Next job is rocker cover gasket and oil/filter, but I don't wanna keep chucking money at an engine that's on it's last legs. She runs/drives fine, no noticeable smoke and just passed the emissions test on the MOT by a mile. In approx 6k miles it's used about 3.5 litres of oil which doesn't seem huge, but like I mentioned the rocker cover gasket is leaking (and well overdue an oil and filter jobbie still...)