Hi all.

Right after my turbo popping and filling the intercooler with oil along with all the pipework and so on. I cleaned everything with white spirit and soapy water.

I fire her up and she appears to smoke a lot. Engine oil type smoke. But it does seem to be once I have been accellerating or at higher revs for a bit. Is this indications of ring failiure or burning engine oil out the cat and residues from the pipework and intercooler? Ive maybe driven only a mile. ..

Had an oil gone down the exhaust?

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Will take a while to clear if oil went exhaust side

yeah some oil went exhause side, and when i took the injectors out they were coated in engine oil then of course it didnt start so the 4 cylinders worth of oil would have gone down the exhaust.

 

Do you all think i should just drive up and down the road for a while and see what happens?

May as well, get everything upto temp.  Or motorway/A road?

A good drive to burn off the leftovers wont hurt.

If everything feel salright while your driving, its probably just the remaining oil finding the only way out.

if in doubt, dip it, drive it, cool it, and dip again to make sure your not still losing oil.

yeah i will do that, and a compression test will help too.

my mates did this a good 30 mile run all was fine his was smoking really bad he was brave driving it I expected the law to have pulled him it was that bad

yeah i will do that, and a compression test will help too.

 

 

how exactly?

loss of compression = rings gone = oil burning?

is not a rule...you must have a low compression next to nothing to bring you severe oil loss,and I bet is not your case.I have now in my friend's repair shop a reno diesel engine with low compression and it doesn't burn a drop of oil...we remove the engine for overhaull

on the other hand worn valve seals can burn alot of oil and has nothing to do with compression

Oh ok, thanks. something learnt there! Guess I will just have to drive it more then.

Right... The turbo did about 50-75 miles before a fluttering and smoke out the back. I took it off and there is oil leaking both sides and loads of play. I took the oil feed pipe, it is clear and fine. I will say that there didnt appear to be that much oil between the oil filter where the oil feed line starts and the bottom of the oil return line. I guess it could be leaking out through the bearings. But what feeds the oil feed pipe? is there any way to check that?

 

Any help greatly appreciated. I need this car fixed and sold now.

Did you prime turbo with oil before fitting?

Turbo is fecked who supplied it and did you do above

wtf!is that the new turbo?who sold you that?

I assumed i had primed the turbo, i pumped new oil into the oil feed line till it came out again.

 

It was a 2nd hand one, so i guess its my fault but i checked it before i fitted it that there was no play and everything span freely, so I am guessing I have done something wrong. It was nice and quiet and worked fine then all of a sudden it didnt.

 

have i missed something?

You did nothing wrong....take the turbo and trow to the one who sold it.