She's Gunna Blow!

[very~worn~944]

Tonight i decided to step up and fix my vacuum line...the one that goes under the throttle body on a 951. You gotta be a carny to get your small hands down there. I ended up pulling the intercooler to throttlebody pipe and boot. Well I plugged the vacuum line back on...and that all was good. Suddenly i noticed a hose that felt like a waterbaloon. The coolant hose that goes from tank to turbo piping is swollen like crazy and sooo squishy...I could stuck my finger through it if i tryed hard enough. I immediately felt all my other coolant lines in fear that if one is bad...they all are getting close. Well i got lucky...Only this one is bad...and i caught it JUST in the nick of time. I am gunna replace tommarow...But one thing i noticed was ALL the oil on the inside of my turbo piping...how much oil is normal? all my connections are all oily too..like the 2 pipes that plug on to the intercooler to throttlebody pipe. There is oil all over the outside...yuk...it looks bad...even under the intake the hoses are oily near the connections. My car leaks oil out the front mains...and when i get on it...i see a cloud of oil behind my car...i thought that that was oil dripping onto exhaust...but no i am thinking it might be goin through the motor. How hard are seals in a turbo? Or is it easier to go with a rebuilt one? I feel a big motor reworking coming soon....

[1.2gees]

How much oil does the car use? A bit of oil in the intake piping is OK (and normal) more than a light coating could be an issue to be taken seriously.

PS: That coolant hose always goes first, since there's usually a lot of oil mist, and high temperatures very close to it.
Ahmet

[Porsche944]

Either the turbo is leaking oil, the Oil filler cap O-Ring is bad, the dip stick O-Ring is bad, the dip stick tube seal is bad, or the Oil filler O-Rings are bad.

The turbo leaking in my first choice, and the Oil Filler O-Rings are second.