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FOLLOW UP///Bad Rings or Bad Turbo 700

Hi all! I appreciate all of your advice! So, I took the car to a volvo specialist, which was great because the guy was awesome, if you live in Los Angeles County and need someone good go to Clayton's Independent Volvo Service in Torrance, he spent about 20 minutes trying to help me for free and wouldnt let me buy him lunch?!!!

Anyway, I had some vaccum leaks which I learned are a killer for these turbo cars. Also, the leaks arent diagnosable with the carb cleaner spray test in a turbo car, since the turbo pressure on the intake is too great, why didnt I think of that before. The lack of vaccum creates high crankcase pressure and the oil to not flow freely back into the crankcase through the turbo lines, the pressure is keeping the oil out.

So I replaced a vaccum line and zip tied the loose ones and also, switched to 20w-50 oil. The car runs 85% better and the smoking doesnt happen until it idles for 5 minutes. Im guessing it still has a small vaccum leak.

After running her hard, I noticed an oil leak at the valve cover gasket, small, but surely a leak. I ordered a intake manifold gasket(just to be safe), oil cap gasket, oil dipstick o-ring, and a valve cover gasket to fix the leak.

Am I missing anything vaccum related, besides fuel injector o-rings? I didnt know the turbos were so vaccum sensitive!!






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