AEman69A

i opened up the engine bay and found something interesting. there is a small tube which leads from the back trunk ) around oil dipstick area. it is in the rear, passenger side of the engine bay. this normally is a circular tube. but once i start the car up, it flattens out flat with creases on the side. there also seems to me much more dirt/grime/oil residue over this tube than any other part of the engine.

i took pix and also a video of startup and it flattening. will post these up soon. is this the oil seperator people talk so frequently about?

i opened up the engine bay and found something interesting. there is a small tube which leads from the back trunk ) around oil dipstick area. it is in the rear, passenger side of the engine bay. this normally is a circular tube. but once i start the car up, it flattens out flat with creases on the side. there also seems to me much more dirt/grime/oil residue over this tube than any other part of the engine.

i took pix and also a video of startup and it flattening. will post these up soon. is this the oil seperator people talk so frequently about?

thx adsach. so the code readout for the O2 sensor can be caused by the oil

seperator? does the oil seperator have its own code?

also, these misfirings would mean that i probably have to change those plugs ( or maybe just all of them at once while i'm down there ) ?

also, wut can i do about the coolant readout? first time i've seen coolant as too low a temperature. the car starts fine ( other than the smoke and uneven idle )

well the CEL light came on and the car smokes for about a minute on startup. also

at idle, there is a slight shake, its not running smooth, but that eases on and off.

also before it was only at startup and a slight amount of smoke. a week later and

now it is a very big amount of smoke and sometimes it will shoot out smoke while

driving for a souple seconds and then subside.

the obd II reader gives me the following

p1128 - Coolant temperature below thermostat regulating temperature.

p1130 - O2 sensor circuit malfunction ( bank 1, sensor 1 )

p0300 - random/multiple cylinder misfire detected

p0306 - cylinder 6 misfire

p0304 - cylinder 4 misfire

p0305 - cylinder 5 misfire

it seems that that whole bank is misfiring ( due to O2 sensor? ).

i also keep seeing similar faults due to the oil seperator and/or clogged throttle body.

this is an '01 boxster 2.7 with 50k miles on it. no mods. driven well for the most

part, but do race it sometimes.

any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

thx alot for the info. ok i got the code readouts.

p1128 - Coolant temperature below thermostat regulating temperature.

p1130 - O2 sensor circuit malfunction ( bank 1, sensor 1 )

p0300 - random/multiple cylinder misfire detected

p0306 - cylinder 6 misfire

p0304 - cylinder 4 misfire

p0305 - cylinder 5 misfire

it seems that that whole side of the bank is messing up ( because of 02 sensor? )

i'm not sure how all this relates to the oil seperator, but thats wut i hear is the most common cause of all the smoke occuring at startup.

thx alot for all the info kamran. btw, where did u buy ur oil seperator?

and if i do change the oil seperator, would i also change the plugs? gasket heads?

and was also wondering where the throttle body was incase i mite need to clean that too.

Ok well my engine warning light has come on and whenever i start my '02 boxster it smokes for about 1 minute. ALOT of smoke. asking around, almost everybody told me it was the oil seperator which was faulty and also to clean the throttle body.

I was wondering if anybody could help me with some diagrams of the location of the oil seperator and/or throttle body. And if i can find them, would i be able to change them myself?

To my knowledge, I would also have to change the plugs and maybe the gasket heads too? This is atleast what i was told when i went to NAAPA.

Thank you, any help would be appreciated.

btw, i had my friend hook it up to a code reader and it just spewed out codes.

they included mass air flow failure, coils, plugs, oil tubing ( ? ), throttle body, and others i cannot remember at the moment. i don't see how this could have happened. i mean 1 day the car is fine and the next all this.

Hey, I'm new to the forums but was wondering if any of you could help me with a problem. I've been a Porsche fanatic ever since i was a little kid and strarted actually saving up since i was seven years old. once I turned 17 i had about $17,000 saved up. my dad loaned me another $8,000 and i brought a 2001 Porsche Boxster. It's the basic black 2.7 litre model. Nothing fancy about it. about 40,000 miles on it, but still, I considered myself the luckiest guy ever. After only driving it for a week, the engine warning light came on. Being the gearhead i am, i took it to a friend with an OBDII reader n found out that my oil sealant ring on the piston is fried ( my two compression rings seem to be fine ). Now, when the car sits still, oil leaks into the piston and once i start it up, oil is burned and a huge white cloud of exhaust comes out. I've stopped driving it since then but I'm trying to get it fixed as soon as possible. I scheduled an appointment with the local porsche dealership for sept. 9 at 10:30 am but I kno they will charge me way more than i can afford. other than replacing the piston rings, would i have to change anything else like the plugs or gasket heads? or would those be fine? i do have some basic tools such as ring expander and compressor and a cylinder hone but i'm afraid to actually try to do it myself. i kno a full piston ring set will cost me around $140 and i can risk doing it my self or i can take it to the dealer and have them do it for around $2000. any other suggestions on what can i do. i'm so mad just having that beauty sitting in my driveway. much thanks for your time

Year - 2001

Model - Boxster (2.7 liter)

Miles - 50,500