Our FRST smokes. I've warned it that it's bad for its health but it still insists on have a puff in the morning.

It's fine on startup and doesn't smoke under acceleration. However as we stop at a set of lights 200yds from our house it sits there smoking. Once rolling again it's fine and doesn't do it again all day despite the abuse thrown at it

I'm wondering if it may be worth fitting a breather kit to help things.

Any ideas peeps?

 

sounds like piston rings to me or bore wear

 

shed

 

turbo is on its way

 

Could be leaky valve stem seals leaking oil into the cylinders overnight then burning up when started in the morning?

I would imagine if it was turbo/rings related it would happen all the time?

Do the plugs get fouled up at all?

 

[quote="John Laverick"]Could be leaky valve stem seals leaking oil into the cylinders overnight then burning up when started in the morning?

also check the oil return pipes condition(maybe slightly blocked and the thicker oil from cold CANT return to sump quick enough so backs up into turbo)

 

ive had this prob on my erst, 9 times out of 10 it will be the turbo
mine has a newish t3 and smokes a little on start up but i deff no its the stem seals , as iv done 450 miles to cornwall and it dident use no oil at all
if its the turbo it normaly smokes 5,10 mins down the road , if its the stem seals it will smoke with in a few mins of start up

andy

 

 

Thought i'd be as informative as possible!!

 

Sounds like what my cabby used to do. Start up, no smoke, but after a min, would puff smoke a bit, then after about 4-5 min, stop.

Was the piston rings on mine.

But that would be worse case I think...

 

doesn't sound like valve stems as he'd have smoke on start-up

common thing is breather pipes blocked or perished.

 

new lungs!

 

I'm going to sling a breather kit on and see what happens. Worst case scenario it get's a rebuild a little earlier than we originally planned

 

Check those breather pipes as mentioned Steve - from memory the FRST breather is sytem is about as useful as a fridge in an igloo

 

Cheers Rich

I don't think it's helped by the fact that the previous owner didn't thrash it. We've only had it a few weeks and it's gained a 195 conversion

 

 

Very common on FRST's once you start tuning them. 99% its the breather. Turbo Technics used to sell a breather kit that sorted this problem not sure if they still do.
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