Bad oil seal?
12-16-10, 05:30 PM
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Bad oil seal?
ok you guys are gonna wanna kill me with all these posts, im ready to kill myself! so was driving my car around last night running fine no problems. decided to drive it to work this morning, whole ride there fine, maybe boosted it a lil bit noting too crazy no high rpms. i pull into my work parking lot ideling there for about 30 seconds and i start seeing blue smoke bellowing past my window, smell it and it deffinately smells like engine oil.. im like wtf now are you serious.. so this after noon i go home from work start it its smoking once again soon as it gets a lil warm. not super crazy smoke but light to mid thickness. when i bought the car it didnt smoke at all... and it doesnt have a cat... so i drive to the gym, then drive home when done. get home wich is like 20 mins away pull in the driveway. its smokin a lil bit,, so i mildly revv it up and down a few times, puffs a lil more. let it idle for 2 mins rev some more then eventually it stopped smoking. i go to smell the exhaust and it just smells like my premix. i have no idea what this could be.... the motor has about 875 miles on it now since the rebuild. has a street port, 2mm apex seals, all new oil seals etc.. and runs premix. now the turbo on the car looks like an ebay brand turbo.. it has absolutely no markings on it at all.. i didnt see any oil comming out of the blitz bov... i heard ebay turbos suck and dont last long, im hopeing maybe its leaking out a seal on the hotside and just going right into my downpipe, but why would it stop smoking? i checked the oil level and it was at the full mark. i added some yesturday before i went out and i was thinking maybe i over filled it a tad but i didnt think so it woulda done it last night.... no oil in catch can either.....any ideas?
12-17-10, 05:21 PM
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been doing 1oz per gallon... deffinately smelled like engine oil... i hope its this piece of crap ebay lookin turbo cuz then ill get something better... the motor is fresh, i dont wanna have to be taking it out and splitting it apart....im gonna mess with it tommorow and see what i can find
12-19-10, 10:01 AM
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so another answer to one of my own posts.. my buddy who is a big dsm guy looked at my turbo. he thinnks its a bullzeye power turbo, with a 260 center thrust bearing.. he says there prone to leaking oil past the seals... so crossin my fingers its just that and not an oil seal in the engine. should be because the smoke is intermittent and sometimes dont smoke at all.
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