2E oil loss - low oil pressure and knocking (video)

[danny_p]

lol modern motors are the reason half thins kit gets made.

on a mk2 i would lift the head without thinking about as it's easy and usally easy to work out whats gone wrong.

one the new stuff there is a hell of a lot more work in lifting a head and belive it or not i was allways looking at more modern motors checking valves ect with compressed air to try and work out what the hell has happend without lifting the head.

last weekend a ford    be thankfull you don't have stupid littel plastic flaps like these in your inlet manifold



because on the other side the shaft holding them in snapped



and you start finding bits like this in the manifold never found the 4th flap but there was a bent  valve  wonder where that went

[Wayne]

Off topic

My Mondeo was the same, all I did was leave them out and fill the holes.

[jmsheahan]

lol modern motors are the reason half thins kit gets made.

on a mk2 i would lift the head without thinking about as it's easy and usally easy to work out whats gone wrong.

Thing is I've just replaced the headgasket, various seals/gaskets etc with genuine ones which cost a small fortune. I really don't want to have to take the head off if I can avoid it. Just popped round the local garage - sound guy, but he reckoned it wasn't worth doing the leak down test as it wouldn't give any indication as to the oil control ring condition.

Most of the symptoms point to a block problem (i.e smoke on power), but I have good compression and it doesn't smoke constantly (I don't know what blown piston rings smoke like, never had it). This points to the head but it seems clean on idle and startup which makes me doubt the seals 

The way I see it is I've got two options:

1 - replace the stem seals which will cost around £200 as I can't do it myself.
2 - Source a new bottom end and strip the whole thing down again.

Both are gambles and I have very very little money to play with which is why I wish for more certainty as to the route of the problem. F**king car. Seriously on the verge of scrapping it. In the last year it's had 2 rebuild heads, this 2.0 block and I shudder at how much cash thrown at it. And it's still not right 

[weazgti]

Mine does exactly this and has so for 2 years and over 10.000 miles of spirited driving everyday of the week.
wouldnt of lasted if it was a ring, still pulls well.

[dansmk3]

upto you but i do have a 2E head you can have! no leaks or anything. came off of my mk3 gti!

[jmsheahan]

Mine does exactly this and has so for 2 years and over 10.000 miles of spirited driving everyday of the week.
wouldnt of lasted if it was a ring, still pulls well.

How much oil does it get through?

upto you but i do have a 2E head you can have! no leaks or anything. came off of my mk3 gti!

Cheers but I have no use for a mk3 head as I want to use my PB one.

[bodga]

Maybe of no help to you because mine is a KR but mine used to puff a little blue on gear changes when giving it some boot. sorted it by cleaning out a mucky breather system. is this the problem with yours, burning the oil mist from the crank case breather?

[jmsheahan]

Maybe of no help to you because mine is a KR but mine used to puff a little blue on gear changes when giving it some boot. sorted it by cleaning out a mucky breather system. is this the problem with yours, burning the oil mist from the crank case breather?

Thanks for the suggestion but I've cleaned all of the pipes out so they should be ok. Stumped to be honest.

I did have a quick look in the airbox and inlet earlier - quite a bit of oil. Assuming this isn't this normal:

[weazgti]

Mine does exactly this and has so for 2 years and over 10.000 miles of spirited driving everyday of the week.
wouldnt of lasted if it was a ring, still pulls well.

How much oil does it get through?

Lots.
Dont know exactly because i dont check it as often as i should. I have an abf for it to go in soon.
Its a bit like owning a 2 stroke motorbike, every other fill up i put oil in. Usually when the tappets start rattling on start up and take a while to shut up. Not the best way to treat it i know but its going to be binned.
It burns more in traffic when its hot and sometimes hesitates till i boot it and clear it.

[bodga]

Maybe of no help to you because mine is a KR but mine used to puff a little blue on gear changes when giving it some boot. sorted it by cleaning out a mucky breather system. is this the problem with yours, burning the oil mist from the crank case breather?

Thanks for the suggestion but I've cleaned all of the pipes out so they should be ok. Stumped to be honest.

I did have a quick look in the airbox and inlet earlier - quite a bit of oil. Assuming this isn't this normal:

That looks too much to me, there must be a breather pipe going to the air filter box. redirect it to a catch can, (beer can) clean the intake pipes out then give the golf a run see if the blue smoke has gone