mark
07-19-2006, 12:33 PM
can someone correct me if i am wrong...
I suspect my turbo to be dead. before it died it was making very weird sounds anytime it pushed past 5 psi, and sound died off slowly when back into vacum (sounded kinda like one of those birthday noise makers, low pitch annoying sound)... recently smoke started coming form the exhaust at startup I'm guessing its the turbo cause there are other sounds even worse now that change with boost. I removed the turbo and there is a lot of up/down movement, maybe 1/8". some slight in/out. There is no oil in the pipes.
I believe the turbo to have failed on the hot side.
Can I plug the coolant and oil lines and fire the engine up to see if the engine smokes. will the engine even run? I cant see why not but never having done this kind of troubleshooting a turbo i'm asking for help on this. I just want to see if the engine will start and smoke. I hoping it doesn't and the smoke was generated from the turbo.
I suspect my turbo to be dead. before it died it was making very weird sounds anytime it pushed past 5 psi, and sound died off slowly when back into vacum (sounded kinda like one of those birthday noise makers, low pitch annoying sound)... recently smoke started coming form the exhaust at startup I'm guessing its the turbo cause there are other sounds even worse now that change with boost. I removed the turbo and there is a lot of up/down movement, maybe 1/8". some slight in/out. There is no oil in the pipes.
I believe the turbo to have failed on the hot side.
Can I plug the coolant and oil lines and fire the engine up to see if the engine smokes. will the engine even run? I cant see why not but never having done this kind of troubleshooting a turbo i'm asking for help on this. I just want to see if the engine will start and smoke. I hoping it doesn't and the smoke was generated from the turbo.