Bought it back from a mate with the advice “the motor or turbo or something is rooted”.
I washed it, and the body/paint are ok so I am not immediately inclined to scrap it.
It starts and runs, badly.
As soon as it starts, it belches smoke from the exhaust and somewhere at the back of the motor/turbo.
Give it a rev and it pops the dipstick out of the dipstick tube and it belches smoke from the tube.
The oil that is in the motor is used but fairly clean.
I am NOT in denial here: the signs clearly point to a lot of combustion pressure getting into the crankcase. But the smoke from the turbo is making me wonder if maybe there’s some weird variation of a blocked crankcase breather or something??
Edit: 200,xxx km on the odo. Hasn’t been flogged, will have been given reasonable maintenance but not pampered.
Turbo passes the “spins freely and doesn’t wobble too much when you put your fingers onto the compressor wheel” test.
