Oil in intake/IC pipes

[albertmdh]

I took my intake pipes off to change an air filter, and the IC pipes off to shim the wastegate, and i noticed alot of oil coating the inside of both, is this a bad thing? no smoke or anything, just seemed kinda messy.

albert

 

[garrettrowe]

If your car has some miles on it it's normal. It's blowby oil from the PCV system.

Search.

 

[Shawndude]

Look into a "catch can" or oil/air PCV separators. But yeah, having some oil in there is "normal", if not exactly kosher.

 

[albertmdh]

so I should clean it out of the pipes somehow, and get a catchcan? and yeah 120k miles.

 

[SP 7M]

If you find it necessary to clean the oil out, go for it. It's not going to hurt anything, but if you feel better having it out of there, then I guess that would be the reason to do it. A catch can is nice way to stop any futher accumulation.

 

[Cz.]

There really isn't any point in cleaning it out because it will just get dirty again. Catch can will deal with it though.

 

[albertmdh]

cool, thanks guys.