Turbo leaking!!
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WyoSyclone
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Re: Turbo leaking!!
Can you actually see it leaking from the fittings, or is the turbo just covered in crud?
If it's covered in liquid crud, take the elbow off of the compressor and wiggle the shaft around and see how much play there is. If you can feel it move laterally at all you may have seals out on the shaft. How many miles on the turbo?
Can you actually see it leaking from the fittings, or is the turbo just covered in crud?
If it's covered in liquid crud, take the elbow off of the compressor and wiggle the shaft around and see how much play there is. If you can feel it move laterally at all you may have seals out on the shaft. How many miles on the turbo?
escofield
New member
Re: Turbo leaking!!
Well its dripping down the hard lines (coolant) and there is oil all over the top of the turbo, dripping down on to everything else below it! Turbo is stock, rebuilt, its got about 2k on since the rebuild.
Gonna go check to see if there is play in the shaft right now
thanks
Eric
Well its dripping down the hard lines (coolant) and there is oil all over the top of the turbo, dripping down on to everything else below it! Turbo is stock, rebuilt, its got about 2k on since the rebuild.
Gonna go check to see if there is play in the shaft right now
thanks
Eric
WyoSyclone
Active member
Re: Turbo leaking!!
You might want to take the air box/crossover tube off and see how much oil, if any, is in there. I'd hate to think you have so much blowby that it would oil up the intake that much.... but it is something to check. Also, pull the dipstick or oil filler cap off and see if you have a bunch of oil fumes blowing out of either when it's running... that would be another indication of blowby.
If neither of these exists I would imagine it's the seals in the turbo. Is the inside of the pipe from the turbo to the intercooler covered with oil?
You might want to take the air box/crossover tube off and see how much oil, if any, is in there. I'd hate to think you have so much blowby that it would oil up the intake that much.... but it is something to check. Also, pull the dipstick or oil filler cap off and see if you have a bunch of oil fumes blowing out of either when it's running... that would be another indication of blowby.
If neither of these exists I would imagine it's the seals in the turbo. Is the inside of the pipe from the turbo to the intercooler covered with oil?
hardtailcfl
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Re: Turbo leaking!!
From what I was told a "little play" is OK (don't remember the exact specs) and as long as there is no evidence of the wheels rubbing against the housings you SHOULD be ok.
I recently had a similar problem to yours in the respect that my turbo was leaking oil. Ended up having to rebuild my turbo (seals and bearings). If that is what you end up doing it's a fairly straight forward process. Bought a rebuild kit from a local diesel turbo shop and there are a few good write ups I found on the net that walk you through it step by step. After I replaced the seals and bearings the leak disappeared completely.
There will be different opinions on this but if you do end up taking it apart make sure to mark the compressor wheel so you can put it back together the same as you took it apart. This will help you avoid having to get the turbo rebalanced.
Good luck :tup:
From what I was told a "little play" is OK (don't remember the exact specs) and as long as there is no evidence of the wheels rubbing against the housings you SHOULD be ok.
I recently had a similar problem to yours in the respect that my turbo was leaking oil. Ended up having to rebuild my turbo (seals and bearings). If that is what you end up doing it's a fairly straight forward process. Bought a rebuild kit from a local diesel turbo shop and there are a few good write ups I found on the net that walk you through it step by step. After I replaced the seals and bearings the leak disappeared completely.
There will be different opinions on this but if you do end up taking it apart make sure to mark the compressor wheel so you can put it back together the same as you took it apart. This will help you avoid having to get the turbo rebalanced.
Good luck :tup:
escofield
New member
Re: Turbo leaking!!
had the box/crossover off today and no oil really, Had the oil filler cap off and the dipstick out and no fumes, and no oil in the tube from the turbo to the intercooler either. Only up and down play on the shaft, no lateral movement. So hopefully its just the fitting on the turbo. Gonna try and get it back to the shop next week and have the builder fix everything and tune it!
had the box/crossover off today and no oil really, Had the oil filler cap off and the dipstick out and no fumes, and no oil in the tube from the turbo to the intercooler either. Only up and down play on the shaft, no lateral movement. So hopefully its just the fitting on the turbo. Gonna try and get it back to the shop next week and have the builder fix everything and tune it!
jwaller
Evil Genius/SyTy Guru
Re: Turbo leaking!!
with the stock crossover pipe it's normal to have oil in the wrong side of the turbo. it sucks it in on the PCV on top of the rad. you need to replace the copper crush washers on the turbo for the oil and water lines.
you just had it rebuilt so that tells me that whoever put it back on didn't do it right, thats why it's leaking so soon.
with the stock crossover pipe it's normal to have oil in the wrong side of the turbo. it sucks it in on the PCV on top of the rad. you need to replace the copper crush washers on the turbo for the oil and water lines.
you just had it rebuilt so that tells me that whoever put it back on didn't do it right, thats why it's leaking so soon.