we had a similar problem with our diesel turbo, it was the PCV valve. white/blue normally means turbo.
heath ----- Original Message ----- From: tobias walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 11:37 AM Subject: RE: no back pressure detrimental to suspect turbo seals? > well my ute "had" 3.5 off the back of the turbo mandrel bent "hi" flow cat > dumped before the diff and I never had such a problem \ > > > > >From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: no back pressure detrimental to suspect turbo seals? > >Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:48:01 +1100 > > > >I removed my restrictive muffler, so my FJ20ET was running an almost > >full-length, but unrestricted exhaust today. Go for a 10 min drive not over > >3.5k rpms and back in the driveway and after sitting there idling there's > >clouds of white/blue smoke out the exahust. Shit i thought, no back > >pressure has stuffed the turbo. > > > >The motor has been known to blow a little blue smoke now and again I > >thought previously this was valve stem seals, but most people advise it's > >probably turbo oils seals. Anyway after few minutes the smoking stops. If I > >shut down and wait 10 mins there's no smoke on start-up. Is this oil from > >the turbo feed getting into the turbo and burning off? I mean it is an > >excessive amount of smoke - no smoke t when I'm actually driving, tho I > >didn't drive away whilst it was pluming. 20 mins later I went for another > >spin - up to 5.5 k rpms no smoke on run - then heaps when idling down in > >drive way again. Didn't do this when the muffler was on, and I'll put it > >back tomorrow and see if there's any difference. > > > >Mark > >1600/FJ20ET > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get less junk mail with ninemsn Premium. Click here > http://ninemsn.com.au/premium/landing.asp > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
