White Smoke

[Lil Oil]

Hi guy...i'm getting ALOT of smoke from my exhaust, smells like oil smoke and oil is in the front of the compressor housing......Can it be my turbo that is gone....My intercooler is also full of oil...A guy told me something in my cam cover may be blocked....can this be?
When cruising I get no smoke only at high rpms on boost 10psi full boost.

 

[Jeff99GS]

You need to take off the air intake pipe and check the turbo for shaft play...sounds like you need a NEW TURBO bro.

 

[XilArAtiNG]

Turbo seals are most likely gone. Is it almost like a smoke screen? If its white its usually a head gasket, check compression, coolant look clean?

What the individual that you spoke with is talking about is a blocked pcv valve system, basically the engine cant relief crank case gases so pressure inside the block builds up causing excess blow by, which is probably not the problem but it could be. Disconnect your pcv valve, see if it changes anything

 

[fatherbubble]

Its your turbo seals they went bad or you made a kink in the turbo oil return line. Thats what happened when I installed my 16G. I left a bend in the oil return line an it created enough back pressure to shoot oil through the turbo seals into the intercooler, and through the whole intake. I had smoke from hell out of my new N-1 exhaust and highflow cat. You can expect to replace your cat now oil is a cat killer. My piston heads were solid black and my new NGK plugs Iridiums were toast. If you got a stock turbo a 16G would cost the same amount as getting your stock one rebuilt.

On a note they call that James Bond Smoke Screen

 

[Lil Oil]

I got the problem solved guys...The breather in the head was blocked, and the only way for the crank case pressure to get out was back up through the return, so the oil was geting pass the turbo seals...No i've unblocked it, there's no more smoke..
Thanks for the input btw.