Took my buddy for a ride up the street yesterday in the T2, got on it hard through the first 3 gears both ways (read: wide open). Ran good, pulled good, but smoked quite a bit when I upshifted. To the point that it was a good thing I had the sunroof open Probably because it's dumping right out of the dp right now (no main cat). Smelled like a mix of oil and fuel smoke. Is this normal for a 14k+ mile TII, or maybe something I can fix? It runs a little rich all the time I think, worse at startup, just slightly at warm idle, skips a bit under no load/steady throttle in neutral and at idle. Resistor is leaned all the way out, turning it back to the middle position makes it stumble and die. No engine light.

I assume some of the oil is the omp system. TPS should be adjusted properly, I set it w/ the multimeter, fiddled with it one time while running to see if it changed but nothing, so I put it back where it was (I counted the turns as I adjusted it).

 

14,000 miles?

 

Sounds like a turbo problem. Pull the intake duct off the turbo and see if there's oil puddling there. Just guessing. I doubt it's the omp at all unless the rod is stuck in the full up position. Doubtful even then.

 

Doh, I meant 140k+

I'll check the turbo intake for oil. The car hasn't been run regularly in about 3 years I think, if that might have anything to do with it.

 

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