E90 330d 06 reg
Noticed an oil leak and upon further checking I have found oil in the turbo air intake side, time for a new turbo?
Can only find oil leaking out of the intake seal that goes onto turbo, removed the pipe to find oil in the turbo
You do get oil in the shaft as it moves around the system.
Have you changed your crankcase breather?
No bud, seen quite a few posts with people thinking its that, read a post that said run car full dipstick and if oil comes out then breather blocked, mine didn't leak any oil.....dont know how true it is
Mines the one that looks empty if that makes sense lol
Do u think that could be causing the oil coming out? Had pipe off started car got to about 2 k revs and bit of oil started to come through
You will always see oil around that spindle area, the engine breather feeds directly into the air intake hose from the air filter, if the car isn’t using excessive oil the don’t waste your money on a replacement turbo, i promise you will see oil around there within 100 miles of replacing the turbo. The oil isn’t coming through the turbo it’s being sucked onto the turbo.
The main problem was that it was dripping onto the driveway but I replaced the breather and the seal so hopefully it will not leak anymore, also there was no oil in the intercooler which I assume is a good sign
Looks excessive to me, had I have seen this post I would have first said what another chap did which was check for shaft play. The next thing would be the crankcase breather, a quick test is to unscrew the oil fill cap with your finger holding it down, release your finger and if theres excessive crankcase pressure you'll see the oil cap bouncing around, if all is well it will have little to no movement.
I tested this by first installing the loo-roll filter which had great results but started to clog rapidly and caused my oil cap to do this:
Then I removed the loo roll and installed the Vortex and
So if you've installed the loo roll be careful because if you have a lot of oil passing through it won't take much time to clog.
Hi bud
I did get the vortex breather asni read a lot of issues with the loo roll style, haven't had time to check the car from underneath as yet but when I do I will update with my findings, fingers crossed!
Still leaking, just wondering if a blocked oil return pipe could cause it this?
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