When I rebuilt my engine I took off the oil breather and put my hand over it just to see how quickly it built up, second time I did it it blew the plastic cam shaft seal out with a whoosh.
Presumably, before you rebuilt it :eek:
 
how about this, regulate the oil pressure and be done with it ??
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https://www.turbosmart.com/product/opr-t40-40psi-black/
 
Well, I got around to swapping the oil stat today.
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Mine has two washers, which seal off the oil. The stat pushes them down in to the housing against that spring. The washers get pushed passed a port in the housing, which then allows the oil to flow. I wonder if they usually have two washers? I don't think many people take these out, so not many people might know. Just thinking the extra washer will make the spring slightly harder to push against as it will already be a few mm compressed.
 
Just the one on mine when it was on
Take care when nipping up with new o ring on I think there’s a gap between faces too much and it breaks
 

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Just the one on mine when it was on
Take care when nipping up with new o ring on I think there’s a gap between faces too much and it breaks
Excellent, thank you!
Having two on mine did make me wonder.
Again, these two washers would have been on before my engine runaway and so before the rebuild. My turbo, though old and tired, was not passing oil then. :rolleyes:
If I take a washer out I suppose it will start allowing the oil through to the cooler slightly earlier. It might help a tad!
 
I've tried my hand over the oil filler hole to check for excessive pressure. Felt fine. Today I thought I'd be a little more scientific :rolleyes:
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Found a kitchen waste pipe connector and taped a nitrile glove to it. Blew up nicely by mouth. Made a rubber gasket to act as a seal when I held it down on the hole.
No inflation of the glove what do ever. However, when I revved the engine it started sucking the glove in.
I'm googling negative valve cover pressure and it seems to be a good thing. Can it be too good though?
 
I've tried my hand over the oil filler hole to check for excessive pressure. Felt fine. Today I thought I'd be a little more scientific :rolleyes:
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Found a kitchen waste pipe connector and taped a nitrile glove to it. Blew up nicely by mouth. Made a rubber gasket to act as a seal when I held it down on the hole.
No inflation of the glove what do ever. However, when I revved the engine it started sucking the glove in.
I'm googling negative valve cover pressure and it seems to be a good thing. Can it be too good though?
have you a blocked or partially inlet
 
Hope you didn’t leave a flannel in the inlet manifold like me :D got sucked into no 3 port blocking air and losing compression
I had loss of power and smoke with that
 
@jamesmartin ive not investigated intake pipe work yet as I'm tying plants up in the garden. Just wondering if vac pump might be faulty and creating the negative pressure? It'll be the original pump, so 24 years old.
 
@jamesmartin ive not investigated intake pipe work yet as I'm tying plants up in the garden. Just wondering if vac pump might be faulty and creating the negative pressure? It'll be the original pump, so 24 years old.
as you rev the engine the breathing system if original and working should suck harder as air and the fumes are pulled into the turbo, a blocked air filter or hose ie inner wall collapsing would greatly increase this,vac pump if there was a leak ie servo and hose would pressurise the engine ie suck air into the engine
 
as you rev the engine the breathing system if original and working should suck harder as air and the fumes are pulled into the turbo, a blocked air filter or hose ie inner wall collapsing would greatly increase this,vac pump if there was a leak ie servo and hose would pressurise the engine ie suck air into the engine
Ok, vac pump probably still ok then.
This is the air filter
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Nice and clean.
However, I took the air intake pipe off the turbo inlet and repeated the test. Glove did not suck in this time!
Time to take all the pipe work off I think!
 

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