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EODMonkey
08-04-2013, 04:11 PM
So I'm having a seemingly odd issue. I know that I burn off a little oil with my rear mount turbo so I wasn't surprised when my low oil light came on on Wednesday. So I put a quart in and all was well. I went for a long ride Thursday and some spirited driving on Friday and my low oil light came back on. I pulled the car in and checked my dip stick, I had some blow by smoke coming out but sure enough it was a quart low. I figured maybe my PCV was shot and I was boosting the crank case or something. I left it for the night, checked it again the next day and magically the oil was back. Where the hell would a quart of oil go. I can't imagine it would all sit in the valve covers and would poor PCV flow or high crank pressure cause a back up of this size with no leaks?

grazi
08-04-2013, 04:29 PM
Maybe the oil passages in the heads are clogged and alot of oil is sitting in their?????

EODMonkey
08-04-2013, 06:48 PM
Can't imagine it's only got 3k on a full rebuild

V
08-04-2013, 07:24 PM
is it possible that the extra oil was in the lines to the rear mount and after shut off the pump takes a while to pump it back to the oil pan, or something to that effect?

EODMonkey
08-04-2013, 08:01 PM
I wouldn't believe so since the line always full. Only thing it would do is over flow in the turbine which it isn't doing