[s-cars] Clouds of smoke!

[CyberPoet]

Clarification: this is if the smoke is coming out of your exhaust. If
it is in the engine compartment, your initial suspicions may well be
correct.

CyberPoet wrote:

> If you are getting thick oil smoke at idle, then oil is seeping past
> your rings and/or valves. I doubt that it is specifically a "turbo"
> problem, but the added boost pressure from the turbo may be
> exaggerating the sealing issue for the rings or valves. First
> suggestion: do a leak down test on each cylinder to try to find the
> culprit (pressurizes the cylinder while it's sealed and then looks for
> loss of pressure over time).
>
> Cheers!
> =-= Marc Glasgow
> www.cyberpoet.net