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Old 02-04-2009, 08:55 AM   #5
RandallNeighbour
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After an oil change, I smelled the same burning oil and saw a puff of smoke at idle coming from the passenger side motor fan area.

It was a cracked oil filler tube. Porsche made it out of "high performance" plastic and it's flex-tubing to boot, so it's very thin in the flexible area and cracks after just a few years.

The tube isn't expensive, but it takes an hour to wrestle the old one out and put the new one on and get it through the firewall.

Now another smell and smoke from that general area can be from your coolant overflow tank leaking or the hoses going to it have lost their seal at the point of entry/exit. Check that too.

Hope this helps!
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