Back when I had the turbo on my teg, I put the turbo on with the oil outlet line too high up so the oil got backed up inside and ended up blowing oil out of the turbo ont he exhaust side. now did that blow the seals or will it be OK when i put it back on with the oil lines in the correct posistion? keep in mind no oil was blowing out the compressor side whatsoever. I need to know if i need a rebuild kit or not. thanks.

 

You are going to have to rebuild it. Your oil seals might be gone. Sorry man


Modified by DeepSi at 9:15 PM 4/10/2003

 

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Not necessaraly so, I had a smilar problem but my oil return line, when it was rubber, was kinked. I had smoke a continious amount of smoke coming out my exhaust, and it was terrible. We did compression test, leak down test, and the last thing we thought to check was the turbo and sure enough when I took my pipe off the inlet, oil was smothered around the inlet. I was releaved since I now knew it was not the motor. So I took it off and brought it to Turbochargers.Com, where we know Tom, and he checked it while I waited and said it's fine. I drove around for weeks with this problem because at first we just thought the rings nedded to settle. But Tom this it's fine and that was over a year and a half ago.
If I was you I would take it have someone check it out for you. Hopefully you can trust them not to steer you wrong!