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Sergy

Oil Spraying Out Of Dipstick After Cleaning Breathers

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Sergy

Today I cleaned my breather pipes out on my 1.6 xsi. After refitting I started the car, went for a drive, and when I stopped at the traffic lights I noticed smoke coming from the engine bay, opened it to find oil being sprayed out of the dipstick everywhere all over my clean engine and smoking on the manifold

 

I'm sure I put all the pipes back correctly, I'm a bit stumped as to what would have caused this - im presuming its extreme crankcase pressure?

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PumaRacing

The obvious conclusion is that you haven't put the pipes back correctly and have in fact blocked all the breathers by connecting them together instead of venting the correct ones to the manifold or wherever they go. The pressure now has nowhere to escape except the dipstick tube.

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Sergy

I managed to get a piece of cleaning cloth stuck in the rocker->airbox breather pipe, put it back forgetting it was in - oops! Sorted now, thanks.

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