White smoke

[tschechone]

Hi folks,

there is coming white smoke out of the exhaust of my 3R.
150 miles driven after relized it. Almost entire oil was gone after this distance.
Turbos not properly working driving 60 miles per hour and more.

The first look at the engine:
There is oil in combustion chamber.
Turbos seem to be ok from the compression side. (did not proove the other side yet)

Someone made experience wit this failure already?
What can it be? Piston rings?
Approximataly costs?

[AMG Merc]

I thought the Pope has expired for a minute!

[sundance002]

Would it not be blue smoke if it was oil burning? Have u checked head gasket? Could the white smoke be steam (water vapor) and the ecu has put the engine in limp mode? Which is why u felt no turbo boost?
The loss of oil? If the chamber was so full of oil you would be blowing lots of blue smoke? So I wouldn't think piston rings is the problem

Edited by sundance002 on Monday 5th December 17:41

[Adrian W]

If you are sure it is oil smoke, either blocked engine breather or turbo oil seal. Take off breather pot and check iboth the pot and the pipe are ckean

[wessexrfc]

Adrian W said:

If you are sure it is oil smoke, either blocked engine breather or turbo oil seal. Take off breather pot and check iboth the pot and the pipe are ckean

Agree, check oil catch tank and pipes as these can sludge-up, sounds like it could be turbo seals.

[951]

Sounds like a Turbo oil seal to me.

If it was the breather, I think it would be more blue smoke rather than white? And I doubt it would get rid of all the oil that quickly.

But the high pressure oil feed to the turbos will certainly do that as it dumps it down the exhaust and also into the intercooler, which will now be pretty contaminated. The oil going down the exhaust will be vaporised and look like white smoke.

Don't ask me how I know this...........

[tschechone]

Thank you all for your help and advice.
Some information helped me. Still working on it.