trogador2005
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- Mar 18, 2013
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Fort Wayne,
Indiana
Alright so here is my story. So my car was running just fine one day and then i decided to put a new valve cover on that a friend gave me which had the pcv valve on it. got new vc gaskets and installed it no problem. 2 days later I'm getting oil in the spark plug tray and the wells. double checked my gaskets and they were fine but I could't get the oil to stop, so I put the old vc back on.
Sometime in the next few days I decided to finally fix my ticking lifters with some 3g lifters and that install went just fine. (got rid of my phantom knock)
then about a week later I started to get a bad misfire and a p0300 code (multiple misfire) and whenever i tried to accelerate it would bog and sputter and lose all power. (I was doing constant boost leak tests during all of this) So I replaced the plugs. still had it, then I replaced wires, then it changed to a p0301, (cylinder 1 misfire) so I replaced the coil pack and that got rid of the code but it would still sputter occasionally while cruising. while digging around I found that the wires were pretty shot on my 1g CAS
so I replaced it with a black top and got a good solid connection and that seemed to fix it for a day .
Then I stared to burn oil. not really at idle, more so with high RPMs. Did another BLT and the air went right into the crankcase through the turbo, checked for shaft play and the turbo was done. It was scraping the comp housing.
Replaced the turbo and started her up and had a really lumpy idle and it was still smoking. slightly at idle but lots with high RPMs. so I checked the plugs again and they looked like this.
So I replaced the plugs again and that helped the idle quite a bit but the smoke never ends. I thought it might be left over oil from the turbo blowing but I drove it for a couple hours and still smoking. There was never any oil in the IC pipes after the turbo blew which is weird.
I've checked the PCV valve on the new valve cover and it was bad. could it have done its damage the short time that it was on? I will admit that when I had the new VC with the bad PCV (didn't know at the time, should have checked) I did do ONE 2-step launch from 4000 RPMs.
Car is still smoking a lot and still feels off somehow. It has also gotten much louder as a whole.
Sorry for the novel here guys but I need some serious help. this car is my daily and it's killing me not to have it on the road.
Sometime in the next few days I decided to finally fix my ticking lifters with some 3g lifters and that install went just fine. (got rid of my phantom knock)
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then about a week later I started to get a bad misfire and a p0300 code (multiple misfire) and whenever i tried to accelerate it would bog and sputter and lose all power. (I was doing constant boost leak tests during all of this) So I replaced the plugs. still had it, then I replaced wires, then it changed to a p0301, (cylinder 1 misfire) so I replaced the coil pack and that got rid of the code but it would still sputter occasionally while cruising. while digging around I found that the wires were pretty shot on my 1g CAS
so I replaced it with a black top and got a good solid connection and that seemed to fix it for a day .
Then I stared to burn oil. not really at idle, more so with high RPMs. Did another BLT and the air went right into the crankcase through the turbo, checked for shaft play and the turbo was done. It was scraping the comp housing.
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Replaced the turbo and started her up and had a really lumpy idle and it was still smoking. slightly at idle but lots with high RPMs. so I checked the plugs again and they looked like this.
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So I replaced the plugs again and that helped the idle quite a bit but the smoke never ends. I thought it might be left over oil from the turbo blowing but I drove it for a couple hours and still smoking. There was never any oil in the IC pipes after the turbo blew which is weird.
I've checked the PCV valve on the new valve cover and it was bad. could it have done its damage the short time that it was on? I will admit that when I had the new VC with the bad PCV (didn't know at the time, should have checked) I did do ONE 2-step launch from 4000 RPMs.
Car is still smoking a lot and still feels off somehow. It has also gotten much louder as a whole.
Sorry for the novel here guys but I need some serious help. this car is my daily and it's killing me not to have it on the road.