What a day I had yesterday! Met up with some colleagues for a jaunt across the Vale of York and up into the Moors.
The car didn't perform faultlessly though, about 18 miles out of Whitby I noticed a lot of blue smoke in the mirror. I thought "s**t, the turbo seals have finally died." However, the smoke stayed constant no matter what I did with the throttle, so I dived into a lay-by. Looked under the car to see oil dripping off the exhaust. Oh dear. First thought was the turbo oil feed, but that was fine. A quick look through the arch showed it was the turbo oil return into the sump. So we managed to cobble a temporary repair out of a VX220 gearbox breather mod at the side of the road. This was quite awkward given limited space on the scissor jack, and basic tools. An hour later it was up and running.
I've since repaired properly it using an old breather hose I had kicking about. Proper fix on the left, roadside repair on the right...
Gave the car a good pasting though, and created a lot of brake dust!
I had to laugh when I got home and saw all this burnt on oily, dusty cack around the exhaust!
I also rubbed through my screen wash hose, but I'll sort that another day.
One thing driving me mad is the exhaust still sounds like it's blowing under load. It shouldn't be, everything I touched is nice and tight. I wonder if it's a trait of an exhaust system with a wastegate divider?