iguanahotsauce
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- Dec 13, 2010
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Vancouver,
Washington
So my talon has been down for a while becaus the computer had some major problems. I sent it into ECMTuning and it was repaired and is on it's way back. So for my problem: I did a boost leak test a while back because I am getting bad gas mileage and when I did the test all of the air would leak out of the valve cover breather. So I plugged it and then I would get air leaking out of my dipstick. So me being a newbie I didn't thnk much about it because I thought it was normal for air to leak out of the valve cover breather. But I have been reading through the forums and found out that I could possibly have a bad turbo seal? I am going to do a boost leak test again today and do it from the throttle body. My car was given to me by a family friend, he had the timing belt snap on him and so he had a bunch of engine work done and he said he had a new turbo put in so is there a reason why the seal would go bad so fast? Another problem I am having is my dipstick is blowing out under boost and spraying oil everywhere causing a far bit of smoke to come off my engine bay. I bought a new dipstick but from what I have been reading I'm guessing that the problem is not the dipstick? Any help will be greatly appreciated as I am still very new to working on cars and dont really know what I'm doing 
