1.8 Clipper Carb loosing oil pressure???

Hi all,

Been a member here since I bought my lovely cabby but had a year from hell so don't get online much anymore.

Been having problems with her since day 1 really and absolutley fed up with mechanics taking the mickey she's really cost me fortune and she's still poorly and I'm running out of cash   .

I fetched her from the garage today after last week when the oil warning light came on and after putting 1ltr into her she blew blue smoke out the exhaust but still got us home, limping from Scarborough to Notts.  The mechanic says she's loosing pressure from the top of the engine and there is nothing he can do I should take her to a VW specialist????.

I just wondered if anyone could offer any advice, I really love my little rosebud and don't want to sell her but I really can't afford many more pointless, suposed repairs.

Any advice would be a real help, thanks.

Lisa

I was so fed up yesterday I took the day off today and started taking the car to bits, nothing ventured nothing gained.

I've looked all over the internet for a part time motor mechanics course but unfortunately I'm well past the 16-19 age restrictions on most.

So I took off the air filter and it was full of oil, there's also oil in the carb so I cleaned it all off and re-attached the breather from the rocker cover and I have pressure but there is also oil getting up the breather and into the filter and then at high revs its burning off, I think through the carb???.

All I really need to know is can I fix her or is it a new engine???

Thanks for reading  

a quick mechanics corse wont teach much matey, trust me been there done it,

that much oil shouldnt be getting up into the carb, but tbh, i have absolutley no idea what would cause that, unless (an its a long shot) have you ever changed the oil? was it lumpy?? it could be a blocked oil galery which is not allowing oil to return to the sump as it could be causing low pressure at the bottom end (light on) and high pressure at the top end (oil being forced through breether pipe into carb, using oil,

if its any consolation mines bein a tw T aswell, just genral carb probs so i think i will be on the look out for a 20v turbinator

pete

Strange diagnosis by the mechanic - it sounds like crankcase pressurisation which has pushed the oil into the carb (through the breather system), it could be valve stem seals or rings which are at fault here. Its a pretty simple test to do a compression test, then add some oil and repeat the test (adding the oil seals up the rings).