Well, August 28, 2003 I noticed a problem with the car. Actually, it was a friend of mine that noticed, when he said 'Look at all the smoke in the car!' After which we pulled over and saw oil all over the engine. The dipstick had been pushed up. There was smoke coming out of it, and from the oil cap when I took that off.

Driving home and I noticed a rather large puff of blue smoke when I shifted.

Further investgation showed that there was a pool of oil on the garage floor from the day before so the problem most likely started on the 27th. I have been having problems with more oil leaks than there had been, oil coming out of the BOV, and a bunch of oil in the air filter box from the PCV system.

The oil pressure reads high when I start it, but drops after it is warmed up to the second line on the gauge. The temp reads about the 1/4 - 1/2 mark. Gas mileage is good.

I checked the air filter again today, Aug 29. It was 2 weeks ago that I cleaned it out last and changed the PCV filters in it. They were soaked with oil again! In fact there was what I would consider a lot of oil in the air filter box.

I checked all the plugs and they did not seem bad to me, but for one. The last one on the driver's side was wet and smelled like fuel. Not sure what is up with that. After I cleaned the air box up I put it back together but left the PVC tube unhooked from the air box as an experiment. I started the car, which started with out difficultity and there was smoke coming from the dipstick tube (I had the dip stick up) and a ton from the unconnect PVC tube to the air box. I took some pics and then turned it off.

 

Plug 1

 

Plug from the last cylinder driver's side.

 

Smoking dipstick tube

Smoking dipstick tube again. The PVC tube was worse but the picture did not turn out.

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