My engine is sucking il throuhgt the rings, thus letting out smoke in huge amount via exhaust with oil.

Asked by herbypang Apr 11, 2016 at 10:30 AM about the 2001 Porsche Boxster Base

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

At 145,000 miles my car sudden started to blow smoke throught its exhaust in  
large quantity, which in turn means that the engine is sucking  oil throught the  
piston rings, could this be a problem develop from the air intake being less air
intake created the problem on the engine thus causing the engine to miss
sucking the piston through the block,

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Your problem description is hard to understand, but sounds like it could be the air oil separator. Try removing the oil cap when the engine is running, if there is quite a big vacuum sucking the cap to the engine, then that is your likely culprit.

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