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Old Mar 20, 2002 | 06:06 PM
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Oil in BOV??

I recently bought HKS SSQBov and today i saw that there is actualy some oil in it, and where it was letting air, it left some oil marks. When i bought it from the guy used, it had oil in it, and now i saw it on my car. So is there sopose to be oil coming out of it??? When i had turbo xs bov, i didn't see this but i don't know. What do you guys think?
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Old Mar 20, 2002 | 06:39 PM
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Sounds like your turbos oil seals are on the way out.
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Old Mar 20, 2002 | 06:48 PM
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What made them go out? I mean recently everything was fine.
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Old Mar 20, 2002 | 07:11 PM
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Old Mar 20, 2002 | 07:58 PM
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that's wonderfull. I can still drive it like this can't I. I mean it still hits 8psi. and it still puls the same. only thing is that i found out that today.
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Old Mar 20, 2002 | 08:24 PM
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This is pretty normal for an old turbo. Normally you don't notice it, but with an open-vented BOV the oil has somewhere to escape and be seen. My previous car had an oily intake for a coupla years before the oil seals finally shat themselves in a HUGE cloud of white smoke!
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