[Vwdiesel] oil around injectors/smoke problem

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/12/2006 6:18:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
david at planetmind.net writes:

> >but now it smokes when it's hot, and really bad
> >when cold. Misses at idle now, too. Seems to have good power, though. 150k 
> on
> >odometer.

  Take a sniff of your smoke.  If it smells diesel-like then it's probably 
the 
original injectors and a new set of injectors will probably make a HUGE 
difference.
  If it smells like burned oil then either a ring broke or broke loose, or it 

has gasser oil in it and a ring or two has stuck.

> 
> >I noticed oil oozing from around the #1 injector when running, and today I
> >pulled it out and it had oil all around the nozzle, and even sitting on the
> >heat shield. #3 was the same, but #1 had no oil. After cleaning it out, oil
> >seemed to seep back in overnight. Anyone know how oil could leak into 
> there?
> 

  I've seen this quite a bit.  Sometimes it seems to be a cylinder that's 
burning oil and sometimes it's a leaking injector or heat shield.  Diesel 
then mixes with the carbon, a bit of leakage bubbles through to mix 
well, and it ends up looking like oil  More often than not it's been a poor 
seal at the heat shield.  The nozzles are real buggars to try and change 
in those cases too.
  Really dirty air filter could cause negative pressure in the crankcase 
and cause oil to pull through and burn as could a clogged valve cover/screen.
      Loren