I hate to post a question about a ***** here but I need to help out a friend. We pulled the head on his Toyota 22R engine and there's tons of oil in the intake and air chamber. I'm thinking his engine is ready for a rebuild. Am I on the right track?

 

well when the head was on did you do a compression/leakdown test? if the rings are worn and it has blowby then the pvc and/or egr valve can let oily/gassy air back into the engine... i had a fiero with such horrible blowby that the air filter was literally dripping with oil after driving it for about 50 miles (the pvc let the air back in right before the filter) but it still idled fairly smooth, drove around fine (has some power loss, but not too much) didnt smoke and passed emissions no prob, yet it burned a qt of oil every 2-3 weeks

 

also is it still wet oil? my friends 5.0 intake was all black, and kinda oily, but it was mainly carbon, and its perfectly normal on that because of the way the egr works it fills the intake (and intake ports on the head) with oily carbon

 

it's definatly wet in both the air chaimber to the intake mainifold and in the intake itself.

 

Hey, Sarge!

Oily intakes are often a symptom of excessive blowby, but could also be a malfunctioning PCV system. I have no idea how the eastern division of GM does that, however.