Oil in breathers?
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Oil in breathers?
Following on from me thinking my turbo's fooked due to the engine smoking, I've just noticed my little breather filter thingy on the left hand side of the rocker cover full of oil. I've checked the pipe on the right hand side of the head and this is also has lots of oil in. Could this be my smoke problem or does this point to the turbo being knackered?
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I maybe wrong here, but if oil is present in the pipe and breather, it maybe an idea to remove your crossover pipe and check its free of oil. If its not, you will find that oil has found its way into your intercooler, which isnt good. Parts affected would be the throttle housing, crossover pipe, joining hoses (throttle and boost) and intercooler.
If oil has got its way all round those parts, clean everything and it would be advisable to replace the little breather unit. It only costs pennies to replace and will no doubt help solve future problems.
If oil has got its way all round those parts, clean everything and it would be advisable to replace the little breather unit. It only costs pennies to replace and will no doubt help solve future problems.
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No oil in the intercooler or crossover pipe. I'm now convinced it's the breather thats at fault as when I opened it there was nothing inside it and I'm missing the 1 way valve!
Can I just block off the pipe that goes to the bottom of the meter head?
Can I just block off the pipe that goes to the bottom of the meter head?
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Right, I've now blocked the meter head pipe off and got rid of the breather altogether so there's nothing connected to the left side of the rocker and I think I'm now smoking MORE!!!
Can anyone help me!!! lol.
Can anyone help me!!! lol.
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So are you just venting to atmosphere now? Is it 100% blue smoke? If it is then you have oil getting into the chambers somehow! If it's black smoke then your just overfuelling, and if it's white smoke (steam) then it's water so could be head gasket.
As the return to the metering unit is blocked off and if it is blue smoke the only way oil is getting into the fuel/air mix and being burnt is past the piston rings or your valve stem seals have completely disintergrated!
As i said above get a compression tester and do a compression test, they are only about £15 from halfords!
If your Comp is good (150psi min across all 4) then i'd go with stem seals, again only if it is 100% blue smoke!
As the return to the metering unit is blocked off and if it is blue smoke the only way oil is getting into the fuel/air mix and being burnt is past the piston rings or your valve stem seals have completely disintergrated!
As i said above get a compression tester and do a compression test, they are only about £15 from halfords!
If your Comp is good (150psi min across all 4) then i'd go with stem seals, again only if it is 100% blue smoke!
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Valve stem seals have been replaced on thursday as I thought this was my problem. Bottom end has just been reconed with new rings. I'll go get a compression tester now, what sort of pressures should I expect to see on the tester?
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If its new bottom end then 12bar (175psi) across all 4 mate.
Test as follows:
Warm engine (15mins running)
Remove all 4 plugs
Screw in tester into No. 1
Accelerator to the floor
Crank for 10sec
Take reading...
Repeat for 2,3, and 4.
Test as follows:
Warm engine (15mins running)
Remove all 4 plugs
Screw in tester into No. 1
Accelerator to the floor
Crank for 10sec
Take reading...
Repeat for 2,3, and 4.
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Just done my comp test and it shows nearly 10 bar, all 4 exactly the same. I have just noticed a nice big pool of oil under the car and it looks like its coming out of the bottom of the turbo I think there's a bolt missing and it's coming out of there, I'll go take a couple of pics tell me what you think.
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If they are standard pistons then 10 Bar is really low mate!!
If you have a puddle of oil on the floor i bet it's coming form the oil return pipe from the turbo to the sump, it will be split! Runs onto the exhaust and looks like you are smoking from behind as your going along!! It's just above the starter motor mate.
If you have a puddle of oil on the floor i bet it's coming form the oil return pipe from the turbo to the sump, it will be split! Runs onto the exhaust and looks like you are smoking from behind as your going along!! It's just above the starter motor mate.
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This bolt is missing under the turbo and has oil on it
All this oil has just come out from somewhere as it wasn't there 10 mins ago!
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Check the oil return pipe you can see in the photo (sometimes splits where the jubilee clip is overtightend), because i'm not sure if oil passes through that part of the turbine housing where the bolt is missing.
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i had the same prob recently oil from the same place my oil seal had gone i took my turbo apart and rebuilt it and problem solved cost me 22 uid to fix
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Wonder if I have low comp pistons in my engine!!! So what does the compression test actually test? is it just piston rings or head gasket? this is the 1st time I've done a comp test
If I'm 100% sure it's the turbo I'll just get another, but if there's a chance it's something else I can do without the expense if ya know what I mean
Thanks for all the help guys
If I'm 100% sure it's the turbo I'll just get another, but if there's a chance it's something else I can do without the expense if ya know what I mean
Thanks for all the help guys
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Fresh engine's have poor ring seal for one, they take a while to bed in. My 7.4:1 engine was about 8.5 bar. These compression testers are quite primitive, what you are looking for is that all cylinders are equal. The actual reading varies on cranking speed, oil grade, coolant/air temperature etc, which is why they have a green area between about 8-14bar. You can't use them to diagnose pumping efficiency, you need a leak down test for that.
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