Well... I hadn't planned on dealing with this today... just a few spare minutes on my hands, so I pulled the injectors. There is some oil on the seat of the injector hole nearest the front of the engine... the others have no oil in them... just, what I would consider, normal gunk. The injectors have some carbon on them but don't look horrible. It does look like the fill cap is leaking a bit... 'not sure, it could be coming from the breather. I also noticed a small bit of oil on the front barrel/intake of the turbo.

Another oddity is that the injector nearest the firewall is not original... stamped that it's rebuild to specs. I find that odd as the car only had ~ 50K miles when I got it...

curiouser, etc...

I am a bit worried about the oil in the seat of that first cylinder...

Back down to investigate...

Thanks!

-l-

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