$hite Pongg... Where to start.....

[tooSavvy]

  .... for some little time now - when giving it some, away up the slip road and keeping it in until 75 - the car fills with an acrid, smouldering cardboard sort of pong?

 

.. on the other hand, actually cruising along between 65 and 75, in the general traffic mix, doesn't have any ponggy consequences??

 

I seem to create the effect by 'hooning' on full throttle/accelerating.

 

I cannot find any direct reference to this as a Clio/Renault problem (searching Clio D4F 16V) but quite a few references to the T/B getting gummied to death by the 'crankcase breather' being clagged up.

It appears that the 'breather' - box with wire wool to catch droplets etc. - is moulded into the cambox cover and cannot be cleaned... 

 

Anyone here got any thoughts as to what I'm sniffinn?.... (answers on a postcard). This is 16V 1.2 Clio/Twingo specific too..

 

Trusty FleeBay has garnered me with a photo of the 'external' Savvy/Clio D4F pipework >>>

 

I am imagining the two short 'inlet ends' must be exiting crank case & cambox - long thin wall pipe goes onto the top of the air filter housing, above the T/B.

 

 

Bit of pipe pulling & squeezing coming up, methinks  

 

 

TS

[Hertz]

Your not farting too much whilst driving Too Savvy?

 

[STUNO]

Goood heavens...a post I can understand.

May be caused by the exhaust getting hot further back than usual. Quite often the pipe collects shit/ bits of oil etc that stay there happily until you do the slip road thing, or some hill-climbing then start to burn off. Or maybe something close to the pipe gettin hot.

[wuvvum]

tooSavvy, on 25 Nov 2014 - 8:13 PM, said:

Anyone here got any thoughts as to what I'm sniffinn?

 

That's a question the entire forum has been asking itself for several years now.

[tooSavvy]

STUNO....

 

Agreed, as I don't use the car every day for work/shopping.  I'm going to give it another Hoon... but I will disconnect the breather pipe (tape the airinlet hole as this would bypass the A/filter)... and basically sniff again.

 

If it is the same then some 'block breather' action is required >> if it seems to be getting less, then it may be coming from the back of the engine/manifold/cat... and being burned away.

 

Hoo Nose  

 

 

TS

[tooSavvy]

For those 'of a certain age'.....

 

 

I have discovered that 'blocked oil breather' IS actually an issue with the D4F 1.2 16V = a new cam cover [with breather built in] £130

 

.... so, should it come to this, I will cut a 'bleed vent' off the base of the Oil Filler neck, which is a separate part from the cam cover, and fit IMP oil catch as above.....

 

$hite enough for everyone...? B.T.W. my screen washers are GR9.8 

 

 

TS

[Sigmund Fraud]

Why not whip the cam cover off and spray the contents of an entire carb spray through the breather bit ?

[nigel bickle]

Are you cooking the battery, by overcharging at high revs? Can be a bit acrid, and can easily be checked- the battery will be hot....

[tooSavvy]

Thanks..all

 

My engine is a bit 'suitcase' >> the inlet sits over the cambox = helluvva faff on!

 

Anyway.... this is the $hiteist way

 

 

TS

[tooSavvy]

... hooned up the Coast Rd, trying the balance of the new Goodyears, and got the whiff again.

 

Tyres are ACE... 

 

When I pulled the bonnet release my 'new' spring worked GR9... 

 

When I took the oilfiller cap off it nealy blew my wig off... 

 

.... very strong 'brrrrUhhh [puff-puff-puff] air flow if you put yrr hand over the neck (engine running)... but it doesn't smell at all 'Acrid'??

 

BlooDy CaRs

 

 

TS

[DSdriver]

Clutch slip?

[babydriver]

Easy cure here, slow down!

[Taff]

do you know anyone with a smelly beaver?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[oman5]

^ I dread to think what that actually smells like

[HH-R]

Is there a rancid pie somewhere in the cabin?

[maxpower]

i had the same problem with a renner 18.... smelled like rotten eggs.... like nigel said...it was the battery cooking