busted oil seals?
 

Hi,
when I start my car it doesnt smoke at all. Then about 5 sec later it will start smoking. The smoking isnt that bad.
If I redline it, the smoke stays the same. It doesnt get worse.
Its not smoking that much but any way I can make sure that my seals are dead?

What year is your car? My suggestion would be to disable the OMP as best you can, most times you can't disable it 100%, then run pre-mix and see if it smokes. If it doesn't then your OMP must be metering too much oil. Aside from that I can't think of a way to figure out which seals are the culprit.

you have a mechanical OMP and they're fairly reliable. Open the Oil fill cap, and see if smoke if coming out of there. Since you're is a turbo, i'm gonna say that it's the seals in there. They go out more often than the OMP going bad, or the oil seals going out.

well if i take out the oil cap when the car is running no smoke is coming out of there

Hold revs at 3k to 4k for 20 seconds...
Is it smoking?


-Ted

I revved the car to 5K and there is almost no smoke coming out. When I let off the gas tho, the smoke comes back again.
I tried again at 6K and same results.

what color is the smoke?

White = coolant
Blue = oil
Black = gas (running rich)
Green = Run:eek:

it's blue

turbo seals??? Rotor oil rings????

Ted?????????????

Seems to me that it's the turbo. When he holds the revs it doesn't smoke. Anyone else any thoughts?

I agree - it's the turbo.
Is your PCV / purge valve all still stock?



-Ted

yeah..check pcv system...also make sure you didnt overfill the oil too much... probably the turbo tho

pat

ps. ted keep updating those avatars, every time u get a new one it catches my eye....'damn is she naked?!'...nope...darn... haha

ok thanks guys I'll check the turbo then :)

is it true the purge valve would only make the car
smoke when it's decellerating?

thanks! :)

ok one more question I promise!
If the turbo seals are bad, does it need to get rebuilt?
Thank you!!