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Hokay,

lend my your ears eyes,

New car is down on compression on the number 5 jam pot, but I don't know why!?!?!?! it came up at 88psi when the rest were 150-160

The car has dodgy valve stem seals, so blows some smoke after idling for a while, but that is unrelated to the lack of compression. (or is it?)

I initially thought the rings were shot, but it doesn't blow smoke under load and the motor is very quiet, has very minimal blow-by and feels quite strong and smooth, idles smoothly yadda yadda yadda.

It is a dead stock 1JZ with a cat back, standard boost factory intercooler etc.

Now to my theory, is it at all possible that the leaky stem seals have gummed up the back of a valve which is causing it not to close/seal properly? I'm sure it is possible, but I have never seen/heard of it in person.

Now when my RB25 chewed up and spat out a ring, the smoke would increase with revs/load as well as showing obvious pulsing blow-by.

I'm going to try and borrow another comp tester and squirt some oil in the bore to double check (I didn't have anything handy this morning)

But like I said, no smoke under load, to me it doesnt make sense.

So I hope you can help too a) put my mind at ease and b) save me from having to buy a new motor

Cheers

A

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So, easiest way would be pressurize the cylinder and listen in both the intake manifold and the tail pipe for the hissing?

I would but my air compressor is at my old mans house 1100ks away lol

Titan - yeah, only smokes if its idling for a while, if you blip the throttle after idling you get a big puff of blue oily smoke.

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smoke sounds like a turbo oil seal (early). a little leaks down the dump while off, then starts to burn out once hot. it can seal up under boost depending on where it is farked so no smoke then.

nfi on the compression.

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I had considered that, but it the smoke is too instant after starting cold, and I'll be f**ked if I am pulling 1J turbos off ever again! lol

I will pull the cooler piping off tomorrow and have a squiz, but 20 years of crank case gasses being sucked into the intake pipe means it will be oily

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i was goin to say just before mine let go it would blow blue smoke on start up and miss a bit...then as it got warmer the smoke would disappear and the miss would go away as the rings sealed better

if urs isnt missing at start up then its not the same case as mine...

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Valve stem seals would explain the smoke / burning oil on start up,

the burning oil may have glazed the bores and your leaking compression past the compression rings, preventing a proper seal with the glazed bores, but your oil control rings are still sealing to explain why your not consistently burning oil

leak down test / wet comp test will help

May also be leaking passed the head gasket giving you low comp

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There is no use over-complicating the issue. It's practically a dead stock 1JZ....the likelihood of glazed bores is so remote, it is literally the last thing you would consider. That and the fact it would smoke all the time if that were the case.

You definitely need to do a leakdown test before you can make any assumptions. It could even be a worn valve guide causing the valve to seat incorrectly AND make the stem seals leak - also not likely on a single cylinder

Remember when you are doing the test to have it at TDC Comp on that cylinder

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So the plot thickens.....

These are the same plugs that were a little oily the other day...cleaned them up and put them back in.

Pulled them out again today...

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:unsure: looks a lot like rust to me

compare these to one from the Soarer

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The orange plugs are BRK6EP's

cyl 1 on the left and 6 on the right

the plug from the soarer is a BKR6E

found my little high power torch so had a look down the plug holes, piston crowns are dry, and also have a slight brown/orange tinge, No sign of any oil in #5, they all match evenly.

So I am thinking that Duncan is correct in saying that it is a turbo seal, Causing my smokey exhaust

Doesnt explain the lack of comp in #5, but I may have muffed the test, there was a bit of crap around the #5 plug hole that may have caused the tester to leak >_<

The car doesnt seem to use any water, but I havent owned it long enough to say for sure, the oil is about 400ks old and looks brand new, so I think that if it was rings the oil would be a lot darker

????

Any more ideas

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