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Originally Posted by GRIESL
Curious, any resolution to this problem? My car has similar symptoms. My air cleaner is not drenched in oil, so is if fair to rule out the breather dumping oil into the intake. Also, my EGR is disabled, but it looks like it's got a little oil on it as well. But the wastegate looks to be dripping it pretty badly--like it maintains a little pool on the front frame crossmember piece. If I took the air cleaner off and determined whether the turbo impeller had oil on it, would that tell me if it's coming from the intake or from the turbo seal behind the impeller? Any help greatly appreciated.
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Oil leaking out of the compressor (intake) side of the turbo would have to go through the intake manifold, the combustion process and out of the exhaust manifold befor it could leak out of anything on the exhaust side.
If it is a big enough leak you might be able to see it removeving the flexable metal coupling that goes in between the exhaust pipe and the turbo and see if the turbine fins are wet with oil or there is a large amout of carbon build up from cooked oil. In these pics the turbine is bone dry indicating no oil leak also shownis the turbine housing inlet.
