<VV> turbo smoke

Mark Durham 62vair at gmail.com
Mon May 17 22:23:34 EDT 2010


I'm also thinking along the lines of Tim. It could be that blow by is
pushing oil out the breather and is causing this. The way to know is to open
up the intake aft of the breather tube to see if there is oil where there
should be none. Mark Durham

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:12 AM, <N2VZD at aol.com> wrote:

> MIGHT be gas build up in the turbo , then it picks it up when you hit the
> throttle. usually too low idle speed causes this.
> pick up the idle to spec to cure it.
> otherwise the seal or / and ring on turbo shaft might weep oil in the
> exhaust side then burn it off when upping rpm. the smell of hot raw oil
> from
> this is different than oil that has gone thru combustion.  is the smoke
>  gas?
> or oil?
> PCV working ok?
> regards . tim colson
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