Re: 16v Crankcase Ventilation Problem?!!!!?

[Hulda Jowett <hjowett@nasc.mass.edu>]

Just speculation here... Your K&N may have been slightly over saturated 
with engine oil due to some spitied driving over a few weeks (?). This 
could have caused an increase of vacuum in the airbox. When you floored 
it, and sent the engine to redline, lots of oil started to fly and mist 
around in the crankcase. Since you are at redline, you are now creating 
an even larger amount of vacuum. Since the engine is having touble 
pulling air through the filter, it really puts alot of vacuum on the 
crank case breather, and with all that oil flying around in there (insert 
suction noise here), GULP! It ingested some oil, POOF! A new or clean 
filter will fix the problem.

An aqauntence sold me an 85 GTI for $100! It was smoking badly, but when 
I got the car home, compression was within spec. Changed the soaked in 
oil paper filter, sold the car two weeks later for $1000.

Later,

Brian
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