Texas_sky
Veteran Member
All the sudden car just started doing this, I had a bad oil leak but always checked the oil and kept it near the full mark or at least on the dipstick. Recently replaced turbo, I had the piston and rod replaced with new headgasket and headbolts/rod bearings back at 123k, currently at 140k, I recently had a compression test preformed while engine was warm with results of 500 on each cylinder. Oil leak has been fixed but leaks a little under the vaccum pump (gasket replaced but still drips) Basically what happens is the car runs really rough and blows a ton of white smoke, when engine reachs a certain temp the engine switches over to normal, its almost automatic, like it runs rough then all the sudden everything is fine. Before I had the rod replaced the car emmitted black smoke into the air, now its white. I'm hoping the lower half of the engine is fine, just need to replace head? Timing is correct, both on belt and injection pump, just had that set 1k miles back but it was out of timing for quite sometime. Timing belt has never broke. Another thing I forgot to mention is before this issue came about the engine was always unusually quiet when I start it then when it warms up it starts to sound like a tdi. Should I run a cold compression test?
Please post comments/opinions/advice... thanks!
New Piston #2, New Headgasket, rod bearings, torqued to proper spec 17k back
Coolant Temp Sensor replaced with green one 17k back
New Rebuilt Garret vnt 15 turbo 2k back
Please post comments/opinions/advice... thanks!
New Piston #2, New Headgasket, rod bearings, torqued to proper spec 17k back
Coolant Temp Sensor replaced with green one 17k back
New Rebuilt Garret vnt 15 turbo 2k back
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