[Biturbos4] Oil in boost tubes and intermittent misfires

[mike]

if you have oil in the boost tubes, then its usually getting there 
through the breather tubes.  which could mean something as simple as a 
bad PCV valve (boost pressure is going into the crankcase and pushing 
out the breather) or you have a lot of blow-by which means new rings 
neeeded.

Mike

Single Malt wrote:

>First of all thank you for the feedback on the "switched from dino to synth -
>lifter prob?" question I posed a few weeks ago.  Based on those responses I
>feel quite comfortable staying with the synthetic and gaining the benefits over
>dino.
>
>There were two items on my "hit list" to have addressed before my factory
>warranty expires on my 2001.5 S4 with 49600 miles ...
>
>1) Is oil in the boost tubes a bad sign?  What does this condition indicate?
>
>2) I was told that my intermittent misfire codes were common and can be ignored
>unless the condition persists.  Is this true?  I thought I would perform a few
>high boost runs before taking it in in hopes of recreating the problem again
>(they cleared the codes the first time).
>
>Thanks in advance for allowing me to tap into the "collective wisdom" this list
>provides!
>
>
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