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[crash96]

hello. i have a 90 plymouth laser turbo. motor is stock. mileage now is 201k. last year the engine started smoking when it was idling, then when i took off is would blow a large puff of smoke (blue). so i bought a new turbo and header off ebay from xs power a.k.a. ss auto chrome i believe. after installing this it seemed to help a little. now that the car sat for a while and iam now driving it again the smking seems to be getting worse. so after all that typing my question is..my thoughts are that the valve seals are bad. so i have bought a new head to bolt on this motor. when motor is dissasembled iam going to put new rings, rod and main bearings, balancer elimnator kit. yesterday i was looking and noticed the intake boot for the turbo inlet was kinda loose. so i put a new rubber gasket on turbo housing and was looking in the inlet hose and noticed it has a good coating of oil in there. and also it looked like oil has been getting to the turbo. so now im questioning if the turbo is going bad already. can bad valve seals or worse case piston rings allow oil to enter the inlet piping on the turbo?

 

[knochgoon24]

So there is oil on the inlet to the exhaust side of the turbo? Or is in the compressor side intake (air intake)?

 

[Gstclipse69]

If there is oil in the intake pipe connecting to the turbo then the oil is coming from blow-by from the valve cover breather. A simple fix is to install a catch can in the line going from the breather (left side of valve cover) to the intake nipple. You can make a catch can, buy one from a vendor, or pick one up from lowes or home depot( kobalt or husky air compressor catch cans).
As for the car smoking, it could be the valve stem seals like you said or the rings. Looks like you got both covered though. Good luck

 

[crash96]

Yah Thatnks. That Sounds Like A Good Idea. Thanks Alot

 

[hereitcomes]

A good indicator of blue smoke means your burning oil. How else would you burn oil - in your combustion chambers! Either rings or valve seals, so good diagnostic, and good luck with the rebuild.