need advice on smoking A4

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Turbo Seals going bad?  Puff on startup?
-Scott by BOSTON

> From: "David Glubrecht" <>
> Subject: Re: 
> 
> While I have only seen this on older cars, The symptoms are the same as my 
> 90 90q 20v that probably has too much blow by and had a clogged oil 
> separator in the EGR system. (180k miles)
> You should be able to find it if you search for "Oil separator"
> but I have poor luck with the archives.
> I was able to bring the smoking down from a Bond style smoke screen to 
> hardly noticeable.
> I have no idea where your separator is, but I am sure there is one and it 
> can't hurt to clean it.  Usually they are part of the valve cover requiring 
> drilling rivets or breaking spot welds to access.
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