hi all

 

my car has picked up ap strange habit, when i start it from cold its fine, i will get to the bottom of my road about half a mile (driving v steady and on no boost at all) , where there are some traffic lights if i stop at them my car then starts to smoke vast amounts of blue smoke, if i then pick up the revs to about 2-3k it will stop but come back as soon as it drops back to idle.

 

after 5 minutes or so when the car is warm it stops all together, and drives perfect no smoke and boost is fine and it pulls like a train, the car is a uk tt manual. with 66k on the clock

 

pcv have been changed some time ago

 

 

any ideas people?

 

rich

mine does this too its turbo seals leaking oil due to lack of back pressure.. has yours been decatted?

yup

Turbo seals mate had the same problem. When did you decat?

yep mine does that too deffo turbo seals im afraid.good news is mines done it for about 2 years and only just started getting worse and ive been deccated for about 3 years and running 16psi of boost

about 3-4 months ago, suppose its an excuse to start fiddling if the engines got to come out! can you buy uprated seals that wont let go if its decatted if so how much and where??

 

also i can understand why it only does it when its cold ???

 

cheers for the help

 

rich

it only does it whilst cold as the seal expands when it gets warm or so i belive.but new tubbies are the way to go :(

fantastic, engine out new tubs brakes and a paint job one thinks

hehe glad u can look on the bright side.me thinks ill have to put up with the smoke a bit longer

i have had my zed nearly 3 years, so i am kind of used to bad news and spending money. but hey no good being the riches man in the grave yard. maybe thats why the zed was invented ???

Don't jump the gun! It could also be your stem seal(s) are leaking. I now that normally if it's stem seals its on start up & clears, but normally if it's your turbo seal the smoke it thick & white. This is a comon problem as we all know, mine has just started doing the same thing! One thing I have noticed is, it will smoke a lot more if I'm going down hill. This the same for you?

this is about right and the smoke is blue

Sounds like there is a strong possibility that it's a leaking stem seal. Just keep an eye on it for the time being. The smoke will worsen over time, making it easier to diagnose.

Is the smoke coming from both exhausts, or only one side???

id double check there isnt a PCV stuck open, it might be at vacuum theres oil being drawn through from the crankcase.

hi

cheers all

 

i will check the pcv's just in case, unfortunatly thr car only has a single exit exhaust on it!

 

were are the stem seals and can they be changed???

 

rich

just realised its the valve stem seals your on about :wack: i am not so sure they its that, cos if it was, i would exspect it to smoke straight away when started from cold. if the oil hand been leaking down into the cylinders surely?

and like i say it has been decatted.

Sorry bud,

Yeah I was talking about the valve stem seals. Like I said in an earlier post, my cars doing a similar thing, except that it smokes heavily at idle from time to time. Then it doesn't smoke at all for a few days.

I'm also de-catted (I'm more a dog person anyway) & I think it's my passenger side turbo seal. I have decided that I'll have the turbo's hi-flowed.