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by Shane » Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:38 pm
Thanks guys for the pointers and to Alan for pointing me to this forum.
Oil leak is weird, as it appears to be spraying all over the engine bay when driven hard,but bonnet open after a jet wash and rev it there's no sign of a leak or problem, guessing because its not really under load at these conditions. Also, I am sure there wasn't a leak until last weekend when chasing a boost problem I had the inlet manifold off and replaced the vacuum hoses.
Yesterday I replaced the ccv and looking at the state of the original I was quietly confident I had sorted it but a spirited drive today left me with a lot of oil over the engine. Car sounds beautiful and apart from a intermittent boost/power issue is otherwise perfect, and hoping that's down to a tank pump which is on order.
I have 2 code readers, a generic Chinese handheld one and a elm chipset bluetooth dongle which I have good results with on other cars but neither work with the bmw, so unable to offer any codes for clues.
One thing that occurred to me earlier is that when I replaced the vac pipes there was 4 outlets on the vac tree and only 3 appeared to be in use, so I did what was logical (to me at least) and capped the unused outlet off with a blank, anyone know if this 4th outlet should be capped or have I maybe missed something?
Should also mention maybe that I did an egr delete the other day.
Will get some photos up in coming days.
Cheers all
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Shane on Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.