ylidk
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- 1991
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- 2.3l L4
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Hey all, I've been test driving my 1991 ranger with a 2.3 turbo motor from a 1988 thunderbird turbocoupe in order to get it tuned after being rebuilt and assembled. After these drives, I've noticed a lot of smoke from the engine bay coming from oil that is being sprayed around and hitting the exhaust, which is coming out of the air filter at the back of the valve cover. The Engine is building up enough pressure that it actually ejected the filter from the grommet holding it in, and I am not entirely sure why it is.
The engine is bored 0.040" over, with forged rods and pistons, and has a Big R T3/T4 "stage 1 upgrade" turbo. The PCV system is mostly stock from the 1988 turbocoupe, woth a hose coming from the block and through the pcv valve to the intake manifold. On the valve cover there's also a filter which has a hose that goes to the turbo inlet, though I have mine going to atmosphere as the turbo I swapped in doesn't have a port to route it to, so this is the only difference from the stock system.
Does anyone have any idea why the engine would build up enough pressure to launch that filter out of the valve cover and spray oil all over the engine bay? I'm not entirely sure what I can do here, aside from make the filter in the valve cover fit even more snugly so it doesn't launch out.
Thanks to anyone with advice!
The engine is bored 0.040" over, with forged rods and pistons, and has a Big R T3/T4 "stage 1 upgrade" turbo. The PCV system is mostly stock from the 1988 turbocoupe, woth a hose coming from the block and through the pcv valve to the intake manifold. On the valve cover there's also a filter which has a hose that goes to the turbo inlet, though I have mine going to atmosphere as the turbo I swapped in doesn't have a port to route it to, so this is the only difference from the stock system.
Does anyone have any idea why the engine would build up enough pressure to launch that filter out of the valve cover and spray oil all over the engine bay? I'm not entirely sure what I can do here, aside from make the filter in the valve cover fit even more snugly so it doesn't launch out.
Thanks to anyone with advice!