cold morning, blue smoke screen plume coming ou tof the exhaust pipe. it smells definitly like oil. what is the best way to determine if it is a turbo seal or a engine seal. no smoke out of the oil fillup tube at idle, no coolant in oil that i could see. any other places this could come from? frozen pvc? cam seal?
and oil catch can is an aftermarker piece. you wont see one unless you installed one. speaking of....mr bikerboy, you think i could get a can from you?
the catch can goes inbetween the breather lines on teh vavle covers and teh intake (at least ithkn it does) and it collects the extra oil that would normally have gone into you intake in the catch can. so you can drain it out, and have a nice clean intake.
yeah matt the can was frozen solid. the 4 lines to the heads were free, i didnt check the one below the ic... what are the chances that i have done dammage?
was just the catch can frozen? if so i dont think that would have any adverse affect on the engine, unless the freezing cracked a line somewhere.
the catchcan was frozen as in, if i opened the oil fill cap and blow through the engine.... nothing. but if i remove the can from the line in and blow, it's clear. i've alwayse understood that if the blowby cannot expand through the vents then it grows untill it finds a way through elsewhere. my can was not plumbed backinto the intake. so it is'nt a question of overflowing oil in the intake, but some seal somewhere letting go.... the vote now might be turbo...
valve seals? worn rings? almost all cars smoke on startup even turbo, every single new saab at work (mtk suby) smokes when you 1st start it, same thing with wrxs, foresters, outbacks, tribecas
yesterday morning it was like a fogger. this morning clear. i'm running totally right now and i'll probobly just run the line back to the inlet sans can untill spring. i've never 'caught' much oil, just that nasty wattery vaporous stuff. the filter media must have just frozen up there at the nozzle.
