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blowing out the dip stick under boost!

Old 05-20-2007, 10:46 AM
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yesterday i took a drive and i got on it a little and i noticed that my car was smoking(blueish/white). pulled over and found that my dipstick wasnt all the way in and it had shot oil out on to the hoodand engine.pushed it back in and decided to put in some check valves in the pcv.took it out again and at 5psi of boost i blew out the driver side valve cover gasket. whats going on.
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Broken pistons. Do a compression check.
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what kind of PCV setup are you running?
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do you have a catch can?
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I would vent your pcv system to atmosphere and if it still doe's it then check your compression.IMOA.
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Originally Posted by engineermike
Broken pistons. Do a compression check.

kinda mean lol. do you have that tube above the big pvc line capped off? also you need to put a filter on the oil fill.
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We use these valve cover breathers where the oil fill is located. Bob
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mine was doing the same thing. put breathers on the valve covers and it smoked all the time. Cylinder leak down test results were no good so I tore the motot down to find 4 cracked pistons
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Originally Posted by dschmittie1
mine was doing the same thing. put breathers on the valve covers and it smoked all the time. Cylinder leak down test results were no good so I tore the motot down to find 4 cracked pistons
Hate to tell you this, but this guy is right that is way to much blow by to be a PVC issue. You have a piston issue an ring gland probably lifted very comon. Do a compression check like he suggested and it will tell you for sure which one or ones. Good luck.


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