Hey all,

 

My L&K 110 ASV engine had the oil light come up yesterday. I topeed and checked and sure enough i had low oil. (Shocker hey!)

 

Anyway, its been ok up to now. And My wides A3 130 ASZ has low oil too again been ok up to now so may be similar problems. Anyway, Long story short... I tweaked fuelling and the car runs wekk, but my mother told me once she saw my car keep puffing smoke whenever I pulled away when she followed me to mine once. I figured it was too much fuel... then I remapped the car and from tiem to time when i boot it i get smoke out the back. Ususally under normal load its fine. Again I figured increased fuelling = increased smoke... but not low oil... should I be worried?

 

Should I start saving pennies for a turbo. And if so... should I upgrade now I am remapped.

I always found even veg oil made my ASV block run worse if I put too much in.

 

Should you upgrade, of course Get a 130pd or 150pd turbo in there, given your bigger injectors etc etc you might wanna look at uprated IC and rolling road remap...You should be able to get decent power.

 

Maybe I'm just saying this because I can't afford the insurance on modifying my engine.

Edited 3 December, 201312 yr by yesiamtom

Does it sound like failing turbo seals though? And if i need a new turbo what uprated ones are direct replacements?

Have you checked for leaks?

Have you checked for leaks?

 

Yes, nowt obvious. the A3 has a sump lug leak evident, so might be that, the octavia has gearbox oil leaking but thats clear, no black engine oil can be seen anywhere!

Well if you're loosing oil it's being burnt in the engine and/or spat out the exhaust and/or sitting in the intercooler.

thats what i figured. The egr is a bit gunky too...

If you do any dismantling to replace turbo, it'll be well worth removing/cleaning entire egr and inlet manifold.

Edited 3 December, 201312 yr by Kandy

EGR will always bit a gunky (due to the crank case breather pipework).  Mine burns some oil, and always has done - I guess it drinks a litre or 2 between services (30k).  I vent my crank case, so I get to see where some of my oil goes, still I can't complain it isn't too bad for the best part of 222k

My brother's was just over 200k when it got scrapped, it was amazing the engine got any air at all. It's the constriction behind the EGR that is the worse point, you can't really see how bad it is unless you take the EGR pipe off. Probably 75% constricted, nearly as bad at the inlet manifold/block interface.

I assume you've done it already but cleaning EGR and Inlet Manifold is a great idea. Taking these off is also the most direct path to the turbo if I am correct so you can inspect that at the same time or mr muscle it if you're so inclined. 

 

I followed this video for draining my intercooler quickly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeKpRMF7ecw

 

He has a lot of other good vw TDI videos which apply to our car, even though theres no instructions you get a good idea of the general gist of how to do a job. Helps me a tonne.