Originally Posted by
GNs-r-slow
Advice from experience....if you have a turbo car you will have leaks, You can rebuild the hole motor and replace every gasket and guarantee you when you put boost to it its gonna leak oil somewhere.
When I say leak thats not pouring, I'm speaking drips. Boost will push oil past the seals. Best way to try to control them for the most part is to be sure you have a good PCV and its hooked to a good vacum source. HTH
+1 on that. Oil return lines are almost impossible to stop from leaking without zillion dollar fittings/lines.
With an older turbo motor, the blow by on the engine is going to be a fair amount, and it will push all your engine seals outward from the inside. Valve cover gaskets, oil pan gaskets, rear main seals, front seals, oil galley gaskets are all common on older turbo cars to leak oil. If its not more than a quart per oil change, and its not getting on the clutch or making anything else fail, then I wouldn't worry about it. And I'd buy a thin metal pan from a parts store.
My SRT4 always leaked oil after I pulled the turbo for the first time.. Only time it every didn't leak oil was when I used glue on everything when I put it back together to trade it in, hahaha.