{"id":14,"date":"2007-02-12T08:51:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/putrescence.org\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2011-11-07T10:34:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T15:34:52","slug":"its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Been a While&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a new baby around is a truly wonderful thing, but there&#8217;s been way too much happening on that front to be able to get out and fight the battle of the leak.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to get the car street-able, I&#8217;ve bought some switches and started installing them. Of course, along the way, I started to wonder why I wasn&#8217;t just using the stock control. Deciding that was actually the smart way to go, I found it in a box in the basement and dragged it out. I&#8217;ve re-built the connector that I had hacked apart to connect up various switches, but stunningly, it doesn&#8217;t work at all. In fact, not only do the turn signals not work, now the brake lights are broken again, too. Bonus.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve been giving the oil spray a little more thought. Basically, there&#8217;s one of three things going on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is an actual hole or loose connection in the turbo oil plumbing<\/li>\n<li>There is too much crankcase pressure that isn&#8217;t getting vented<\/li>\n<li>The oil drain is getting backed up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the problem is a hole, then there should always be leakage, and it appears that we only get spray under boost. If there&#8217;s a loose connection, though, it could be &#8220;good enough&#8221; for regular pressure, but once the crankcase pressure builds, oil could leak past the seal. That leak, then, could be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oil pressure sender nipple to block<\/li>\n<li>Oil pressure sender nipple to OPS<\/li>\n<li>Oil pressure sender nipple to turbo inlet<\/li>\n<li>Oil inlet connection<\/li>\n<li>Connection from oil inlet to turbo<\/li>\n<li>Connection from turbo to oil output<\/li>\n<li>Oil output metal-to-rubber connection<\/li>\n<li>Oil output rubber-to-pan-barb connection<\/li>\n<li>Oil pan barb<\/li>\n<li>Oil pan gasket<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m doubting that it&#8217;s anything at the pan, since the oil-spray is hitting a bit higher and there&#8217;s a whole lot of steering parts in the way. I suspect that there&#8217;s a little too much car in the way for the oil pressure sender plumbing to be the cause, but it&#8217;s not impossible.<\/p>\n<p>If the problem is that the oil drain is getting backed up, then there are two things that could solve the problem. Either a flow restrictor needs to be put in the oil inlet line to slow down the flow going in, or the oil drain hose needs to be replaced with something a little more direct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a new baby around is a truly wonderful thing, but there&#8217;s been way too much happening on that front to be able to get out and fight the battle of the leak. In an attempt to get the car&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=14\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}