Vanagon burning oil (has good compression)

[stanton.samuel]

is that the same as a cam oil baffle? a piece that sits over the cam shaft and deflects oil away from the breather?

[rs899]

No- they are different, but you can do both.  The oil separator is a device that takes the oil-laden fumes that the engine pumps out at the top of the valve cover, sends them over to a device, spins them around and separates the lighter fumes (which go up to the intake manifold) from the condensing oil ( which is returned to your sump).

[stanton.samuel]

that sounds like it has potential.  Am i just putting off the inevitable though?

pulled off the breather hose while the van was running just to see, i was half expecting to see globs of oil pouring out,  the gasses leaving were smokey, but no globs of oil, i dont really know what it is supposed to look like so i'm not sure that did any good.

i'm considering a swap to a 1.9 TD AAZ but its really expensive and i would way rather just repair this engine if possible.

[theman53]

If it wasn't dripping I bet the cam baffle will cut it down to at least 25% of what you were used to.