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[Swanick]

my erst

night i bought it i got it home and a bit of blue smoke came out. was gutted. over a few weeks this got worse and eventually u could be sat at traffic lights and u would see this big blue cloud slowly drift past you

could tell turbo was on way out as well because it wasnt boosting like it used to.


then the smoke stopped. no blue smoke when it was idling and none when u started it up. only very occasionally would u see a bit

but the turbo wasnt boosting like it should.

[InS@nE]

so whats the actually question


if it's why did it stop ya ran out of oil

[andymac]

Turbo oil seals ? Using any oil mate ?

[Swanick]

was worse than that and all of a sudden it stopped.

oil was always good. didnt use much and was changed every 3k

[Joris]

Mine does exactly the same.
Had a new turbo, and still the same
Replaced head gasket, still the same

Probably new turbo that is not working properly,
but color of smoke is exactly the same

sometimes it doesn't do it for a couple of days, then all of a sudden it decides to chuck out loads

If you find out what it is, let me know

[Swanick]

the pic of my FRST is actually the valve stem oil seals. that was constant smoke though which is why i didnt think it could be them on my escort

[Joris]

so only thing left is turbo then or breather ? or piston rings

[Joris]

or if it stopped all of a sudden ? you overfilled with oil, now it's all used and you're fine ?

[Swanick]

piston rings have been mentioned to me many times

to be honest i dont think it was ever overfilled with oil

[Joris]

did you have a compression test done ?

Mine was in for one, but the gauge wasn't long enough was someone that only does cossies normally.

[Swanick]

no i never got that done. we just took the engine apart ready to rebuild it.

just thought it was weird that the smoke stopped and the car ran perfect

[Joris]

if it doesn't come back it might just have been overfilled a bit and the car might have drank it by the breather or chucked it in the exhaust ?

let's hope that for you

[Swanick]

cheers mate

[~S1~]

Have you always used the same grade oil at changes? Cos a few years back I tried filling my ERST with Mobil 1 0W/ 30 or whatever it was. It smoked really badly and sounded like a bag of nails. I changed it for a different grade synthetic oil and it was fine.

[DaveZetec]

kink in the oil return pipe from the turbo forcing oil past the seals?

[Swanick]

everything was tidy under the bonnet