The air filter housing was swapped in from the '82 300D a while back. The air cleaner2turbo elbow and turbo intake are oil free now. Blowby has minimal amounts of oil if placed into a collection container.
Luther On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:46:12 -0500, Peter Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Very very likely bad bearings in the turbo causing worn seals to leak oil into the turbo intake. The other possibility is badly worn valve guides (or incorrectly installed ones) -- this will cause excessive blowby up the valve stems, atomizing the oil and carrying the mist through the mist trap into the intake. A bad oil separator (leaking down the intake instead of removing the oil and running it back into the sump) will do the same thing. Check out the oil separator especially, as I seem to remember there is an o-ring that can go bad, causing the oil to run into the filter housing. There is also, I believe, a foot valve sort of thing on the botton -- it that gets stuck, oil will overflow into the intake. That oil drip is good for a quart in a thousand mils or less, and may be related to the oil in the intake. Peter
-- Luther KB5QHU Alma, Ark '83 300SD (236 kmi) '82 300CD (160 kmi) '82 300D (74 kmi) needs MAJOR work
