"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" - Wot's This?

[Bee Elzebub]

...And another quizzical query for you Most Knowledgeable Ones...

Driving along in my Maverick yesterday, I smelled burning oil; first instinct was to b*ll*ck the driver in front for having a crap engine...but when I stopped & checked under the bonnet, I found oil 'mist' creeping down the front of the exhaust manifold from a "widget"..."doohickey"..."gangle-valve"... thingy atop the casting; can't seem to identify it from the '.pdf' manual I snaffled from here a while ago...

Have any of you Wise Ones any idea what the 'device' is, and if it can be fixed/re-sealed, etc? Is this the infamous EGR valve?

(Pic below...Offending/leaky item is the top-hatted vertical cylinder, just off-centre to right; note the oily damp patch running down from its left side...)

 

[briggie]

its a wotsitthingummyjig

 

[makeitfit]

That's your oil blow by thing mate. There's a filter in there I think. It's to do with taking oil puffed out the engine and sticking it back in the bloody intercooler :doh
Bin It :thumbs

 

[BIGSEAN]

there is a valve in there, pop the lid and clean it (in the top hat thingy)

 

[clivvy]

yeah, its probably just full or cruddy oil wotsits, mine just does what yours does, minus the smell....

 

[Bee Elzebub]

Ah! So it just needs a clout with a doofangle tapper, and a wipe with my wife's best dishcloth, then? Good-oh! I'll sort that, this weekend...

Cheers, M'dears! ;-)