(the “didn’t fill” from above are all from AFTER the fix)
I did this a long time ago but I only posted it now because I wanted to make sure the issue is gone. And it is!
I finally found the culprit that’s been filling up my damn air filter, making the car run like shite and using oil like diddy.
It’s this at #4, the oil separator.
This car hasn’t had an oil change in a LONG time before I got it, gunked up the oil separator, clogged it, and the oil started going up instead of back down into the engine. Swapped, and you can see in the photo above how it was immediately fixed after. It’s actually pretty easy to remove, it just takes time to take off the airbox first, or at least that’s my mechanic told me. How he didn’t figure it out when I asked why I had oil in my airbox is beyond me, but whatever.
The whole job is almost as cheap as the oil I had to keep adding.
If you have this issue, you will see oil coming out from this tube that goes in the airbox at #36.
You didn’t ask for an auto troubleshooting tip? Well too bad!!!
Mine’s a Golf 4 1.4 petrol AXP by the way. Though, I think many cars have similar things.
If you know a community that could use this info lmk, I’m still trying to figure out lemmy.
No, but I’m happy to receive it! My dad never was much of a mechanic or handyman, so there’s a ton of things he didn’t and couldn’t teach me. The intricacies of cars are part of that, and I never have the nerve to sit down and proper learn it. I know a bunch of the necessities I had to learn for my license or picked up along the way. I just can’t make myself commit to a longer learning session.
Thing like this are a small, digestible slice of understanding, delivered during my morning commute when I’m both receptive and have the time. It fits in my attention span -> curiosity window.
This is the perfect way to learn. I’m very glad you posted it!
Same here, my dad has something to say about just about everything but he doesn’t tend to be right :-/ When I said I wanted to fix this oil issue he immediately said that it’s definitely caused by bad piston rings…he was getting ready to take the car to have the engine taken apart when I told him to stop and let me check.
I appreciate him wanting to help but really, if he’s unfamiliar…he should probably not try to help…though I do love him.
And yea, I can’t really make up the time to do this seriously, but if I have several weekends of spare time I eventually figure it out like I did with this. I went to 0 knowledge to using elsawin online and looking up part codes in like 5 months of weekend spare time (while also researching and doing other things).
Mine doesn’t try. Silver lining, I guess?
As I understand it, it was a point of friction between him and his father already: Grandpa very much was the tinkering and handyman type, even as he got older (much to his wife’s dismay when he’d climb a ladder at 80+ to do something in the ceiling).
He’d try to teach my father how to do stuff (partially because of gendered expectations that “a man should know how to…”) but it just wouldn’t stick. It’s a shame, really. I think these things are worth knowing.
I struggle to do chores during the week, so weekend tends to be spent catching up, spending time with my wife, helping her with her own business It stuff etc. That leaves me with precious little energy for all the things I want to do and learn, unfortunately.
But I’ve been learning some stuff here and there, and now this post is on my “saved” list as well. Thank you for sharing it!