Well I've never had this problem before in the 15k or so since I turbo'd the tib. I changed the oil about 2 weeks ago and as always putting in 4.5 qts seems to just over fill it a little bit. (you'd think I'd learn right?) So after the oil change I checked and I was a little over the full line. On a side note I'd also been having a problem with the dip stick poping out so I removed the pcv and plugged the manifold.

Well fast forward to last night. I was having a superbowl party so pulled farther into my driveway than normal and leave my car on like a 30 degree angle then remember I have no ebrake. When backing back out I spun on ice and I'm pretty sure i boosted in reverse coming out of my driveway and I believe that's when this happened. I smelt something weird and I thought awww crap, toasted the clutch a little.

Today: I go to school, service call to fix printer, then off to the new hyundai dealer to see if I can pickup parts there now, maybe an ebrake cable, when something bad happens. So far none of these trips where long enough to even warm my car up enough to have heater. Then while boosting down the high way I smell something like burning clutch. I had smelt it as well on the way to the service call earlier and I'm dreading reaplacing a clutch in this cold weather. Well I stop at the next light and smoke is everywhere! Coming through the vents, out of the hood, my first thought is NOOO I PULLED A DWEET!!! QUICK GAS STATION!!!! WATER HOSE!!! FIRE EXTINGUISHER!!!!

I shoot across a couple lanes into a parking lot and the smoke seems to die down. So I park, hop out, and touch the hood, ice cold, then I'm thinking NOOOO I PULLED THE EVEN WORSE SOCKS!!!! So I pop the hood and look, Oil everywhere. And again the dip stick is poped out but now it's covered in oil. Which I don't understand cause now both of my vents are going to my "catch tank" aka ground. I had thought it was doing that because I had still had the pcv valve hooked up (changed it during my last oil change).

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Sorry for the long read but:

1. does it make sense that the oil would shoot out like that? It's even on the insulation on the hood!!!
2. Why is it still pressurizing the head? yes, both vent and pcv valve are disconected and not receiving an ounce of boost.
3. Which is better papa johns or donatos?

thanks in advance!!

 

I've never heard of donatos. Sorry, can't help you there.

Your power steering fluid cap is on backwards. That could be the culprit.

Solution: Remove Cap, Replace cap at 180ยบ turn from when it was removed, check oil levels.

 

^^Holy crap thanks!! I think it doubled my horsepower too!!!!! .... smart alec

and donato's is only columbus ohio I think.. my second favorite pizza place. http://www.donatos.com/

 

Have you thought about getting a 710 cap to replace your OIL cap? http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main_page=...;products_id=19



You might just be getting a crapload of blow-by because of how much you overfilled it. It might not be pressurizing the head, it might just have a bunch of oil up there free flowing out every time the air rushes to the PCV. Another option is you might have bad compression forcing air out of the pistons into the block on each combustion stroke.

 

hey man, you need to clean your engine bay. wow that sucks though. you dont think you broke anything do you? no hole in the block or anything like that?

 

btw... the hood insulation is made in a way that if it does get covered in oil it absorbs it and looks natural. Your problem looks like the engine was run without the oil cap. it's definately not comming from the PCV or the bypass.

 

It does look to me as well that it pushed past the oil cap. You might have overfilled it more than you thought. Blowby out the PCV would not have went forwards in the engine bay.

First thing I'd do is clean it up. I'd change the PCVs now as well just in case, and they're cheap. Then I'd refill it to a normal amount, and start it and see what your issues are then.

You blowing out the dipstick and this are issues from having too much pressure in there, not what you want.

I would compression check it myself to make sure you aren't having the issue DTN described.

 

I definently wasn't running without an oil cap on. and I really don't see out it's even possible for it to come out there, the engine would have to be upside down!

guys did you read the part where I said it was on a 30 degree angle, nose facing down hill. actually my driveway might be even steeper than that!

I think I'm going to see about replacing the o-rings on the dip stick, it didn't always blow out and didn't start till 5-10k after I went turbo. The oils about down to the line down. when I put in 4.5 quarts it's always like .... <- that much over the full line, now it's barely over. really need to just put in 4 quarts, I'm sure that would be plenty.


and whats this crap about dirty engine bay! I cleaned it last summer after the turbo install, and before it. Weather lately's been super salty. plus spewing oil all over the place isn't helping matters. anyways like I said guys neither vent nor pcv is hooked up. I'm guessing that means it's blowing past the rings? Since the original post I've been browsing google and it looks like thats the only other reason.

edit: ooooh, no guys I never thought it was oil coming out of the pcv, I mearly mentioned that because I had thought having it hooked up was causing my dipstick to pop out. The oil came out of the dipstick!!! I'm not asking where the oil came from but rather why the dipstick is poping out and why the oil came out of the dipstick or whats causing the pressure in the block.

 

It is blowby, plain and simple. The reason it blew the dipstick out was that was the path of least resistance.

And Donatos is the only place to go, well it was back in 90-91 when on a whim I would drive to Columbus just to get some.

 

^^think replacing orings might help out? I've been trying to figure out why it keeps poping out and today was more or less the last straw.

yeah, I'm leaning toward moving donatos to first and bumping papa john's down... great stuff.