Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:07:21 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Diesel - too much oil saga
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you say you want a longer dipstick.
maybe I missed a post or two,
but since this thread started I have been asking which dipstick system you
have ..
some people run the jetta dipstick on the engine block.
some convert it properly to diesel vanagon style dipstick, and there are two
versions of those ..
so what dipstick system please ?
maybe you have some results from the shop to report now.
does not sound too good.
I doubt glow plugs can foul very easily from oil..
they don't need to arc or anything like that like a spark plug does.
they heat from within,
and will burn off anything on them I'd think.
and glow plugs are the least of your issues right now it seems.
Scott
turbovans
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter K" <bybike@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 7:57 AM
Subject: Diesel - too much oil saga
> I've read the threads about too much oil with great interest as I took my
> westy in for its first oil change here in Toronto. She has a 1.9 turbo
> diesel from a 94 jetta, and the dipstick isn't "normal" in that a proper
> level of oil is below the low mark. The shop put over 6 liters of oil in
> her, topping it up to the full mark, and when I drove her it wasn't long
> before she blew oil out, then promptly sucked it back in thru the turbo
> and
> ran wild for a full minute (even with the ignition shut off). Max revs,
> first a blue cloud and then a black one, and then she finally stopped.
>
> Now she's very hard to start, appears to be pumping oil into the cylinders
> and when she does fire up it's with a big blue cloud. Once the engine is
> warm, it runs fine and will start fine. However she is on a steady diet of
> oil (at least 1 liter every few hundred miles). She's in the shop now,
> thought I'd ask here what people suspect might have blown... Mike said he
> will start with a compression test.
>
> I suspect the glow plugs are fouled, and some piston ring damage.
>
> As a side question, anyone know where i can get a longer dipstick? Or
> confirm what the correct one is so I can avoid this in the future?
>
> sigh
>
> --
> Regards, Peter Kraiker
> studiofstop.com
> '82 Westfalia 1.9TD
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