Dartmoor Navigator
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Ok - is it on the nearside of block under turbo? My 300 started with White smoke and a dribble of oil there (apparent the most common side). It didn't blow into the cooling system or vice versa (so no milky oil or contaminated coolant) but into the oil channels causing compression and smoke out of the filler / dipstick.
I am a terrible mechanic - so I am just sharing my experience
sible88
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Dartmoor Navigator
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I am no mechanic... But it sounds very similar. Initially it looks like it's coming from the turbo and in fact I know of one fella who changed the turbo to find it was the head gasket. The garage remembered this and looked for the compression back through the oil channels on mine. Mine started like yours and then was blowing oil back out the dipstick all over the engine bay. The gasket seems to go on that side - it seemed to be a flaw in the design at that point.
Seek further advice, but if it isn't too bad and you have no major journeys to make - can you live with it?
Gasket kit, head skim and fit was about £500.
On the other hand, I could be completely wrong
Dartmoor Navigator
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Ask someone to blip the throttle while you have the dipstick partially lifted - see if there is any force / air blowing out... I would have thought it would be 'chugging' out if there is unwated compression
Ok, update:
Took the landy to mechanic who had a look and gave me the following diagnostic:
Turbo gone and leaking oil into exhaust causing 80% of the smoke and the other 20% is from the head gasket. Therefore he wants to change the turbo and do the head gasket.
Does this sound right? I would have thought if the smoke was from the leaking turbo, once fixed there should be no smoke and therefore no need to strip the engine.
Took the landy to mechanic who had a look and gave me the following diagnostic:
Turbo gone and leaking oil into exhaust causing 80% of the smoke and the other 20% is from the head gasket. Therefore he wants to change the turbo and do the head gasket.
Does this sound right? I would have thought if the smoke was from the leaking turbo, once fixed there should be no smoke and therefore no need to strip the engine.
Dartmoor Navigator
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Did he take turbo off, or just look under the bonnet and make some educated guesses?
Dartmoor Navigator
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I am sure that yer man's right. I was convinced mine was the turbo... 'til the mechanic said he had recently changed a turbo an it didn't cure the problem. It sounds like a very expensive job now
One thing puzzles me; how does oil in the exhaust cause white smoke from a cold start up?
One thing puzzles me; how does oil in the exhaust cause white smoke from a cold start up?
Dartmoor Navigator
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Did it sort it out?
