I was cruising around the other night and noticed my oil pressure was starting to get lower, instead of ~25psi at idle i was seeing ~15psi at idle but still would see 60+ above 3,000rpm. I pulled over checked for leaks and everything was fine. Since i was only a few miles from home I babied it home.

As i pulled in the driveway i noticed the oil temp was up stupid high and the oil pressure was basically sitting on 0. Pulled the pan off and spun main bearing #2. The motor is already tore down and getting the crank turned. The blcok and head are getting dipped in a cleaning tank but wat do i need to do about the turbo? Is there a safe way to flush the turbo without any shavings causing the bearings to go out? Its a journal bearing 60trim garrett.

I cut the oil filter apart to see how many shavings were picked up and it was full of fine shavings but there were hardly any traces of metal in the oil feed line when i pulled it off and blew it out in a jar.

 

You could flush the turbo fairly easily using regulated compressed air, a blow gun, and a line full of fluid, but you might not even have to. How did you have your oil line connected, did it receive filtered oil from a ge sandwich adapter?

 

The oil feed is coming from where the stock oil pressure sensor was on the back of the block....

 

I know somebody on here has flushed a turbo before or knows how... help me out guys

 

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You usually dont "flush" a turbocharger after a bearing has spun. I'd take it apart and rebuild it. 9/10 times debris won't get into the turbocharger. If your really worried about it, then rebuild it.

If its a Turbonetics turbocharger you'll be fine if it still has the oil inlet fitting installed...

 

Do you guys not use inline filter for turbo feeds? no problem that way.