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Well, you may experience unforeseen and expensive complications in addition to the currently diagnosed issues. :brow: Who knows?;)

 

lol the only problem is: he just bought it 2 months ago for 10g's... yea, im not buying his loan for the car ;-)

 

 

too bad though.. its a nice car.. but i dont want his problems lol!

 

 

-Justin

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If the breather hoses to the heads and/or the PCV valve stuck open and/or it's hose are misrouted or clogged in some way, you can get oil in the intake.

 

 

For instance a stuck open PCV will allow boost pressure into the crankcase which could push oil out the breather hoses. Or perhaps the PO tried to install catch-cans or an air/oil separator and did it poorly.

 

 

Still no CEL?

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Well, Pulled the turbo off....

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...

wait for it...

 

 

ITS FINE!!

 

WTHECK?!? Ideas??????

 

To add: it bucks at about 2-3500...

 

 

-Justin

 

What do you mean by "fine"?

Just because there may be no shaft play doesnt mean the seals arent shot.

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Well, Pulled the turbo off....

...

...

wait for it...

 

 

ITS FINE!!

 

WTHECK?!? Ideas??????

 

To add: it bucks at about 2-3500...

 

 

-Justin

 

Annnnnnd this is a surprise?

 

PCV valve Stock OE Subaru part or aftermarket turd? Does it jiggle?

 

What about CEL? Does the bulb work? Codes?

Squirrel in the intake? :-P

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Ok, yea. by fine i mean it spins, no In/out play and no wiggle play. it does have a lot of oil on the intake side - probably the reason for the low oil problem and it does need to be rebuilt with as many miles as it has on it.

 

 

The bonkers part is: no CEL. Yes, the light works on initial "key-on" test and Yes, I've plugged a reader in just for giggles and returned no codes :-/.

 

We were thinking of putting it all back together and putting a boost gauge on it to see.. kinda wish we did that in the first place, though it really looked like it was shot.

 

 

-Justin

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