Oil Control Ring Failure??
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Oil Control Ring Failure??
What would be the symptoms of oil control ring failure if you had worn irons or just bad oil control rings. When would the car smoke, after boost when you let off throttle as the car is pulling a ton of vaccum, or would it smoke heavy at idle, under boost, high rpm? I have a car I am trying to diagnose at the moment and I think I have ruled the turbos out as they do not smoke underboost and the car doesnt really smoke on cold starts after sitting all night? Hoping someone with experience with this will chime in.
If I boost the car, then let off throttle it takes about 3-5 seconds before a big cloud of smoke comes barrelling out of the exhaust pipe. The car does not smoke under boost even during a long pull. It is only after throttle is released and still take about 3-5 seconds before the smoke appears. Every car I have ever had with blown twins would smoke while under boost?
Thanks in advance.
If I boost the car, then let off throttle it takes about 3-5 seconds before a big cloud of smoke comes barrelling out of the exhaust pipe. The car does not smoke under boost even during a long pull. It is only after throttle is released and still take about 3-5 seconds before the smoke appears. Every car I have ever had with blown twins would smoke while under boost?
Thanks in advance.
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Also note, that when you let off the throttle while at 30-40mph when not in boost, you will still get 23-25in of vaccum. When doing that it does not smoke, only after the car has been in boost, which makes me think its the turbos. However, I just swithched the turbos out for a "Known good set"(said by another forum member) and the car does the same exact same thing.
Has anyone else who had failing turbos only have them smoke after you let off the throttle after boosting?
Has anyone else who had failing turbos only have them smoke after you let off the throttle after boosting?
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i don't think its failing turbos... does the car have some sort of fuel management? it could be running rich because of a tune. ive seen many cars smoke after hitting boost because of rich tunes
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Could the PCV system be causing this? Do you still have the stock setup?
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What do you have? An oil catch can, or what?
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Usually the O rings in the rotor oil seal age with heat etc.You see big smoke on cold start due to oil leaking down into the rotor housing,and depending how bad the O rings are,you would see constant smoke across the rev range.Oil consumption would be high.
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Im pretty sure I have figured it out, I must have some type of restriction somewhere in the PCV setup. I removed the oil filler neck cap and the car doesnt seem to smoke anymore. However, it is dark and is difficult to judge using street lamps on back roads. I will update the thread tomorrow but I am somewhat confident it is in the PCV system. Thanks to DaveW for making me think to look back at that.
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Im pretty sure I have figured it out, I must have some type of restriction somewhere in the PCV setup. I removed the oil filler neck cap and the car doesnt seem to smoke anymore. However, it is dark and is difficult to judge using street lamps on back roads. I will update the thread tomorrow but I am somewhat confident it is in the PCV system. Thanks to DaveW for making me think to look back at that.
David
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David,
Here is what I've experienced regarding oil control ring..
I bought a car 3-4 years ago that smoked like hell! When I say smoked like hell, couple of mins after you crank the car, you couldn't see the car no more (i sound southern.. LOL!).
I was hoping it was the turbo but when I took the turbos off, there was ton of oil everywhere.. after I took the manifold off, I could see the oil inside the engine and all around the manifold. When the engine was pulled and broken down, it sure was the oil control rings...
Here is what I've experienced regarding oil control ring..
I bought a car 3-4 years ago that smoked like hell! When I say smoked like hell, couple of mins after you crank the car, you couldn't see the car no more (i sound southern.. LOL!).
I was hoping it was the turbo but when I took the turbos off, there was ton of oil everywhere.. after I took the manifold off, I could see the oil inside the engine and all around the manifold. When the engine was pulled and broken down, it sure was the oil control rings...
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I had the same symptoms but opening the oil cap didn't help for me. It also didn't help that it was my first engine that I tried rebuilding too as well as not really looking at the turbos for any leaks.
Let us definitely know what comes with this, this would give me more peace of mind where I might have screwed my build up.
Let us definitely know what comes with this, this would give me more peace of mind where I might have screwed my build up.
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David,
Here is what I've experienced regarding oil control ring..
I bought a car 3-4 years ago that smoked like hell! When I say smoked like hell, couple of mins after you crank the car, you couldn't see the car no more (i sound southern.. LOL!).
I was hoping it was the turbo but when I took the turbos off, there was ton of oil everywhere.. after I took the manifold off, I could see the oil inside the engine and all around the manifold. When the engine was pulled and broken down, it sure was the oil control rings...
Here is what I've experienced regarding oil control ring..
I bought a car 3-4 years ago that smoked like hell! When I say smoked like hell, couple of mins after you crank the car, you couldn't see the car no more (i sound southern.. LOL!).
I was hoping it was the turbo but when I took the turbos off, there was ton of oil everywhere.. after I took the manifold off, I could see the oil inside the engine and all around the manifold. When the engine was pulled and broken down, it sure was the oil control rings...
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You're welcome. Glad I could help!
I had a Passat 1.8T that had a PCV problem. It had a bad check valve that was letting turbo pressure pressurize the crankcase, leading to all sorts of (mostly blown or leaking gaskets) problems, and I thought that might relate to your oil-smoke issue.
Dave
I had a Passat 1.8T that had a PCV problem. It had a bad check valve that was letting turbo pressure pressurize the crankcase, leading to all sorts of (mostly blown or leaking gaskets) problems, and I thought that might relate to your oil-smoke issue.
Dave
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guess i'm too late, it definitely sounded like the added boost is forcing the PCV valve shut for too long and building up too much cranckase pressure. another solution is just to put an oil catch can on the engine though the FD doesn't have much room in the engine bay to place one if you have the P/S and A/C still.. i'm not a huge fan of the stock PCV system once you start pushing over 300WHP, after that point it's just hit or miss if you are going to have blowby issues or not.
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I'm having similar problems. I'm hoping it's not oil control rings. I just had the stupid engine rebuilt. I thought it was leaky turbo but with a new turbo the problem remains.
I looked at my pcv setup and the line off the throttle body has been caped along with the top nipple on the oil filler neck with a catch can attached to the bottom nipple. The car has not been boosted since it's been rebuilt and never more than 3-4k rpms. Currently it's a N/A FD
PCV or am I in bigger trouble? Any help would be great.
Here's what's been "fixed"
Engine rebuild 2k ago (it's been doing it off and on the entire time)
New turbo w/ SS oil lines.
Any help?
I looked at my pcv setup and the line off the throttle body has been caped along with the top nipple on the oil filler neck with a catch can attached to the bottom nipple. The car has not been boosted since it's been rebuilt and never more than 3-4k rpms. Currently it's a N/A FD
PCV or am I in bigger trouble? Any help would be great.
Here's what's been "fixed"
Engine rebuild 2k ago (it's been doing it off and on the entire time)
New turbo w/ SS oil lines.
Any help?