[quote=Hobie]Small nuance here. Oil leak onto hot exhaust will produce a ‘white’ smoke with a slight blue tinge. But that is easy to smell and track down looking at the engine. But, if it coming directly through the exhaust pipe and is white. That is coolant.[/quote]
Thanks. It was coming from the exhaust.
I just switched to a thicker oil (rotella t6/for turbo diesels). Its not a vw spec oil, but someone on bobtheoilguy ran it on the same engine on a vw and had an oil analysis done. it did as well if not better than most vw speced oils. Besides, it’s a last ditch effort for this car, so things like coming the turbo is probably not on the top of list things I should be concerned about.
Amazon is selling it for $18/4 quarts woth a subscription, which is cheap for synthetic. Its the same oil I put on my sc miata, so if this works, I don’t need to maintain a big stock of different oils. I also topped off my coolant but I am pretty sure the leak is external, since I did see a drip. The coolant didn’t look dirty, and the oil looked fine.
