HoytBows
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I need help fellas. I recently purchased an 01 TDI with 214k on it as a beater car to drive to work and stack miles up on. Well I put about 5k miles on it when the oil dummy light came on. I thought maybe with higher miles it was eating a bit and didnt think much of it until I went to add some. It took almost 4 quarts. I was semi alarmed and decided I would be watching it closely.
Well i continued driving and at some point while accelerating up a hill it began making a loud clicking noise and smoking, I hit the clutch and the motor ran away with itself. I just grabbed the key and turned it off asap. it revved up pretty high but I was on it real quick and shut it down. Good cloud of smoke. My first thought was that the motor had gone, but i didnt really know. I was in spot where i really didnt have many options. I started it back up and it appeared to run normal like nothing happened. I continued driving and checked the oil at the next stop and it was about 2-3 quarts low again. I added more and just continued to run the ol girl. The whole episode of the loud clicking and revving out when i hit the clutch began happening more often. Usually when I was leaving a stop sign or intersection, and when I got into higher RPMs where the turbo would spool and I would shift.
Again I was in a bad spot and when I could I took off and drove it up over the pass in the mountains and back down into Denver. It really didnt act up at all until I got back down into 'city' driving and was hitting red lights. It seemed if i could keep it in the lower RPMs and drive it easy, the car would act perfectly normal.
I parked it when I got home and started to research TDI's. I really now very little about the motor specifically other than it being just a little diesel. pulled the engine cap off with it running and it blows enough air out of the valve cover there that I blows a paper towel right out of my hand. Best I can figure is that I lost compression (guess) and I'm getting enough blow by that its consuming oil and also running off with with itself when its getting enough. It doesn't leak oil really to speak of at all when its parked. No considerable smoke when running normally, some on start up but never caused me much concern.
I found a new motor already with 140k and kinda want to buy it and spice it up a little and tune it and drop it back in with some transmission upgrades.... but I want to trouble shoot this thing correctly first before i buy a new long block.
SO can anyone here chime in on this with thoughts and things I should start checking? The turbo is supposedly new around 200k and I have not checked yet to see if the oil seals in it are leaking. Thanks in advance....
Well i continued driving and at some point while accelerating up a hill it began making a loud clicking noise and smoking, I hit the clutch and the motor ran away with itself. I just grabbed the key and turned it off asap. it revved up pretty high but I was on it real quick and shut it down. Good cloud of smoke. My first thought was that the motor had gone, but i didnt really know. I was in spot where i really didnt have many options. I started it back up and it appeared to run normal like nothing happened. I continued driving and checked the oil at the next stop and it was about 2-3 quarts low again. I added more and just continued to run the ol girl. The whole episode of the loud clicking and revving out when i hit the clutch began happening more often. Usually when I was leaving a stop sign or intersection, and when I got into higher RPMs where the turbo would spool and I would shift.
Again I was in a bad spot and when I could I took off and drove it up over the pass in the mountains and back down into Denver. It really didnt act up at all until I got back down into 'city' driving and was hitting red lights. It seemed if i could keep it in the lower RPMs and drive it easy, the car would act perfectly normal.
I parked it when I got home and started to research TDI's. I really now very little about the motor specifically other than it being just a little diesel. pulled the engine cap off with it running and it blows enough air out of the valve cover there that I blows a paper towel right out of my hand. Best I can figure is that I lost compression (guess) and I'm getting enough blow by that its consuming oil and also running off with with itself when its getting enough. It doesn't leak oil really to speak of at all when its parked. No considerable smoke when running normally, some on start up but never caused me much concern.
I found a new motor already with 140k and kinda want to buy it and spice it up a little and tune it and drop it back in with some transmission upgrades.... but I want to trouble shoot this thing correctly first before i buy a new long block.
SO can anyone here chime in on this with thoughts and things I should start checking? The turbo is supposedly new around 200k and I have not checked yet to see if the oil seals in it are leaking. Thanks in advance....