TurboJunky
Fire the Federal Gov't
- Joined
- Nov 5, 2002
First and foremost I've owned these cars for the better part of 25 years but am not a tech guru.
Last night after a couple hard runs my car seemed to lose a cylinder and it was blowing white smoke as I drove and applied some power. After limping it home the car idled but was clearly missing on one cylinder and when revving it up would blow a significant amount of white smoke clearly from burnt oil out of the valve cover breathers. It's not acting as if I have a blown head gasket as they normally let go outward and I have no external leaks or cylinder compressing exiting externally. It was also making a high pitched noise possibly out of the turbocharger as the car idled. A friend of mine suggested the internal turbocharger seal(s) may have let go.
I've been WAY too frustrated with the car to look at it today since I got it home late last night. Being tongue-in-cheek I'm ready to take this car to the local scrap yard and crushed it since it's been such a pain in my ass.
For you experts out there, do you have any ideas what might be causing this condition?
Last night after a couple hard runs my car seemed to lose a cylinder and it was blowing white smoke as I drove and applied some power. After limping it home the car idled but was clearly missing on one cylinder and when revving it up would blow a significant amount of white smoke clearly from burnt oil out of the valve cover breathers. It's not acting as if I have a blown head gasket as they normally let go outward and I have no external leaks or cylinder compressing exiting externally. It was also making a high pitched noise possibly out of the turbocharger as the car idled. A friend of mine suggested the internal turbocharger seal(s) may have let go.
I've been WAY too frustrated with the car to look at it today since I got it home late last night. Being tongue-in-cheek I'm ready to take this car to the local scrap yard and crushed it since it's been such a pain in my ass.
For you experts out there, do you have any ideas what might be causing this condition?