My Pete rebuild

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(12-28-2019 )Rawze Wrote:  Looking at only the bottom of the head, the combustion on it looks good. #2 seems to look really good actually, the rest are close to this.

-- Given this, and the fact you say you had a lot of excess turbo slobber, could it be all that build-up form oil ingestion? -- Is possible, but it would have to be considerable. - Was the intake getting wet wit oil too? - or just a tiny bit on the turbo side when idling a lot.


If that is the case, I still can't see it making a scuff on the liner like you show pics of... it would be flaked carbon making vertical streaks down the liner walls.

just some thoughts.

The first turbo pushed enough oil through that it was dripping from the clamps on the intake side onto the power steering reservoir. The 2nd one appeared dry, but showed a lot of oil on the hot side after a while.





The intake has a film, but not wet - yet the vaporized oil would still affect the mix in the cylinders to some degree.

I've been all over the place with theories on this - ask me again in 20 minutes and I'll have a new one lol, but I do think that the oil being pushed through as being a contributing factor.