Oil in Airflow Plate and Intake

Alexander van Gerbig Audi_80 at email.msn.com
Tue Jun 12 18:57:18 EDT 2001


    I have been checking up on my airflow potentiometer when I decided to
pop up the airbox top to peak at the trim screw on the potentiometer.  When
I popped the airboot off I was unhappily treated to greasy hands.  I found
an oily film in my intake tract to the turbo, this wasn't there two days ago
when I had the intake tract off.  The source is of course the crankcase
breather hose.  My crankcase breather / carbon system is as follows:

Crankcase breather hose goes to the back of the airbox top, the valve cover
vent hose is connected directly to the crankcase breather mid way, the valve
cover vent hose is connected to the same carbon canister hose that goes to
the first solenoid.  That is the whole system, I purposely got rid of the
connection to the intake manifold so I wouldn't be boosting my crankcase
venting system.  The vent for the injectors goes right to the airboot, that
is stock.

    So my question is, what gives?  I had to block up the stock port for air
intake on the airbox and cut a small chunk out of the front passenger's
corner of the airbox.  Could this new "cut out" be too small and when I hit
boost the engine is literally sucking oil out of the crankcase?  I have no
valve that controls how much vacuum hits the crankcase hose like turbo cars
do.

TIA!

Alexander van Gerbig -- '88 80t

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