Oil in the Air Cleaner

Philby · Post by **Philby** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:26 am

Hi all, just bought a 91 L series wagon.

Opened the air cleaner to replace the filter and I have found oil inside.

Can anybody explain what is causing this and how to repair it?

Thanks

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:11 am

unfortunatly your motor is worn and the rings are "blowing by" The fix is new rings.
Unless you plan to keep the car for the next ten years, you could just put up with it.

Brumby Kid · Post by **Brumby Kid** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 8:42 am

Same thing in my brumby, except it was mixed with coolant. A sort of light brown milky grease mixture. It's either welch plugs or head gasket.
Cheers Cam

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:10 am

Install a catch can to collect the oily vapours before the fumes get to to air box. My EA81 did that at 370,000 km, I hooked up a breather filter to RHS rocker cover $15 SCA, and fed a $60 SCA catch can on LHS rocker to air box hose and got another happy 93,000km so far

bretgc · Post by **bretgc** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:35 pm

steptoe wrote:Install a catch can to collect the oily vapours before the fumes get to to air box. My EA81 did that at 370,000 km, I hooked up a breather filter to RHS rocker cover $15 SCA, and fed a $60 SCA catch can on LHS rocker to air box hose and got another happy 93,000km so far

Do you think you could take a couple of snaps to help guide me through this setup as my L wagon is also suffering from this quite a bit. Cheers.

mud_king91 · Post by **mud_king91** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:45 pm

i have that problem with the benz... i find jamming a piece of foam in the pcv pipe works a treat the oil cap is different i tend to ignore it... its better then the pain of thinking what it,ll cost to fix

guyph_01 · Post by **guyph_01** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:58 pm

mud_king91 wrote:i have that problem with the benz... i find jamming a piece of foam in the pcv pipe works a treat the oil cap is different i tend to ignore it... its better then the pain of thinking what it,ll cost to fix

Sell the Benz and buy my vortex:p Problem fixed....

mud_king91 · Post by **mud_king91** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:01 pm

i dont think the benz is worth that much

Brumby Kid · Post by **Brumby Kid** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:03 pm

What model is the benz? Pics?

mud_king91 · Post by **mud_king91** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:10 pm

its a 91 W126 300SE

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:44 pm

I put this in my EA82T to control blow-by