Hi all,
New l322 owner here, and new to the forum!
Recently bought a 3.6 tdv8 and have had a fair few repairs to do so far.
When I picked it up it drove spot on and there was no smoke, however there was plenty of oil leaks.
I traced one of the leaks to be the oil cooler, so I set upon fixing it. Stripped it all down and took the complete housing off, took the oil cooler, oil filter housing and oil separator off, cleaned, replaced seals and re assembled with a new oil filter also. I also took the opportunity to blank the egr’s and clean out the manifold that houses the throttle bodies as it was very mucky.
Once reassembled it seemed to run fine and no oil down the bell housing, went on a test drive and no issues.
The next time I drove it after it been sat for a while I was getting massive clouds of blue smoke on hard acceleration for about the first 10 minutes of driving and then it clears.
There seems to be a pattern with the longer it sits between using it the worse the smoke is to begin with.
I am now in the middle of changing the inlet manifolds due to more leaks, and when I took the manifold off with the throttle bodies the inside was already very oily after I had cleaned it previously.
Its also worth mentioning it had new turbos about 40k miles ago.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing the smoke and the oil in the inlets? It was fine before I took apart the oil cooler. Very strange.
Thanks in advance!

This sounds like a leaky injector.
Get live reading of the injectors and you should be able to see the culprit.

Check the leaf spring which sits under the oil filter make sure it’s seated properly think it’s the same oil cooler as on the 4.4 2012 Westminster 4.4 tdv8

ChurchMuch wrote:

This sounds like a leaky injector.
Get live reading of the injectors and you should be able to see the culprit.

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ashtrucker wrote:

Check the leaf spring which sits under the oil filter make sure it’s seated properly think it’s the same oil cooler as on the 4.4

So I have heard about this before but can’t find anything underneath my oil filter housing. Is it missing completely or is the 3.6 different to the 4.4?

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Looks different from the 4.4 on the actual filter element dose it have anything sticking out from the bottom to plug the drain hole 2012 Westminster 4.4 tdv8

To answer my own question yes the filter for the 3.6 dose have a protrusion on the bottom of the filter to plug the drain hole. Sorry for wasting your time hope you get it sorted 2012 Westminster 4.4 tdv8