Blowing Out The Dipstick!

[veilside33]

Hey guys,

about 3 weeks ago now i did a run down the quarter...

i redlined first gear and it spat out the dipstick and left it hanging off of the side of my engine.

my r33 now blows the dipstick out quite often and is realy worrying me.

Has anyone experienced this before? does anyone know what could *hyperthetically* of done this?

Im also having a problem with my powersteering/hicas

My hicas light will be on and ill loose powersteering *weather its related or not* although sometimes i will have no hicas light on the dash and it will all be sweet But generally, when hicas is on im powersteeringless.

Any info is apreciated...

*another subject*

If there is Anyone Interested in tradeing a r33 gts-t *auto* with veilside kit and drift wing, front mount intercooler large turbosmart bov, large 5" cannon on a 3" pipe..boost guage and boost tap, im looking for a r32 manual with light mods and good looks.. im open to any offer so just give me a call on 04 22202239, im from ipswich in qld............. its not that i hate my 33, i just like the older shape and manual setup better.

Cheers everyone and any help would be mad!

[ctjet]

not to freak you out...

but mine used to do that for a while, left oil evevywhere. Engine blew a month later

[veilside33]

Ok thats fair.. Although i have asked a few aged mechanics and they seem to think its a miner issue, nothing internal.. they are thinking it may well just be a vaccum leak in the pipes. the engine does not miss a beat, it simply idles more stagered then it should.

Anyways hopefully when i take it to the mechanic he doesnt tell me that i need a engine rebuild...

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[LTHLRB]

mine used to do it, hooked up catch can wrong and wasnt letting any crank case pressure out, nearly blew the block to bits haha. But get it checked out asap.

[NutR33]

my rb25 was doing that too, i only just made it home in an oily mess, pulled the engine down and had melted ringlands on a piston. everytime i got on boost it would pressurise the sump and pop the dipstick out. it ran fine other wise.

i would recomend getting a comp test asap, will show up any difference in cylinder pressures, may not be a big difference depending on how bad the damage is.

[LTHLRB]

when that happened to me, i raced that night and went all good, that was back in march, its been running hard as every till now.

But get it checked b4 it pops

[ctjet]

my rb25 was doing that too, i only just made it home in an oily mess, pulled the engine down and had melted ringlands on a piston. everytime i got on boost it would pressurise the sump and pop the dipstick out. it ran fine other wise.

i would recomend getting a comp test asap, will show up any difference in cylinder pressures, may not be a big difference depending on how bad the damage is.

thats what i meant... i just isnt smart enough to wrote it

[lingeringsoul]

better get a second opionion from a more younger mechanics to check it out....seems every time i hear someone blow out the dipstick, the engine blows after a few weeks....so fingers cross.......

[Mr. Oizo]

too much crankcase pressure

[siksII]

does it have a catch can? if so the catch can could be hooked up wrong and it is pressurising the sump

if not i would have grave concerns about the motor, as another possibilty is that you are are getting large amounts of blow by which is pressurising the sump and the engine will need rebuild to fix it.

get it compression and leakdown tested.

[dead32]

its either gona be cheap or realy expensive, could be blocked/not working pcv valve causeing it to build excesive crank presures and making it hunt at idle, or melted rings/pistons, my old engine ran fine except it used to pump out bout 1lt perhr of driving, other then that still went hard lol, p.s i had a catch can fitted at the time,

[blind_elk]

I would have my money on a smashed ring or smashed ring-land, allowing boost pressure to bypass the piston and pressurise the sump. And the simplest pressure-relief valve is the dip stick.

Get it checked pronto.