200tdi oil coming out of air filter box. Help!!

Remove oil breather pipe from the stub just before the air filter housing, reroute the breather pipe over to the driver side inner wing, buy a 19mm blank cap off ebay, fit said cap to the filter stub, drive car and do not worry.

New air filter.

Only use mineral 15/40 engine oil, no semi syn/full syn, it is old shti tech engine, so use oil school oil, do not get sucked into the upgrade every bloody thing that lots of land rover owners do.

How much oil did you put in it?

I was wondering if it was over full ....

miktdish said:

I was wondering if it was over full ....

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That was my 1st thought but nope it was spot on. Although dropping now

timbr00 said:

That was my 1st thought but nope it was spot on. Although dropping now

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If genuine defender engine, the dipstick has three marks, L N and F, they are happiest around the N for normal mark.

Yes it’s at n

Have you been driving at extreme angles, maybe off-road? My engine is very healthy, but also does this intermittently. The 200 TDI seems to be very oil level sensitive and I avoid running it at the highest level- somewhere between the two seems to work best. I quickly learnt that if filled to the F level, it get's consumed quite quickly until it settles at the N level. I wonder if using the vehicle across its operating angle range causes oil surge which results in intermittent heavy breathing, hence excessive oil from breather?

timbr00 said:

Yes it’s at n

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Well all I can say is move the breather as I said above, then monitor the level every week, then make a diagnosis from that info.
If it is till dripping oil after a week or two then you are most likely into turbo territory.

I think I said above mine used to do exactly this, I tried an oil catch tank, that just made grey sludge, so I just left the pipe to atmosphere, and since then not a drop has come out of the pipe, it has now been like this for years, certainly more than 10 that I can recall!
In conclusion my engine is probably well worn, but uses virtually no oil/does not breath heavily, and I would say yours in much along the same lines.

Britcyclerider said:

Have you been driving at extreme angles, maybe off-road? My engine is very healthy, but also does this intermittently. The 200 TDI seems to be very oil level sensitive and I avoid running it at the highest level- somewhere between the two seems to work best. I quickly learnt that if filled to the F level, it get's consumed quite quickly until it settles at the N level. I wonder if using the vehicle across its operating angle range causes oil surge which results in intermittent heavy breathing, hence excessive oil from breather?

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No I 1st noticed this just after an oil change before being driven. Had thought it had gone away but not the case. It’s been suggested the sump pipe may be slightly blocked or that I have too much oil if my dipstick housing has moved

Maybe stick the old filter back in if you still have it, see what happens