Hello, i have jsut installed my turbo stuff last night and i seem to have an oil leek comming out of one of the bolt hole on the exauhst housing of the turbo, This turbo is brand new, never been used, i am thinking that i did not tighten the 6 bolts that holds the housing tight enough..... this is a garret turbo any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

Bump if anyone can help, please point me in the right directction

 

are you sure its brand new? if becasuse it might be your seals. just trying to help correct me if im wrong.

 

yea it was brand new...... if it is the seals how hard it is to replace them?

 

if its the seals you have to have the turbo rebuilt and thats alot, ifi ts brand new bring it back to where u got it

 

I'm convinced, we greeks aren't meant to be boosting

Try tightening the bolts and see what happens.

 

hehe no ****


well now there is no leaks cunning out of the housing because i tightend the shout out of the bolts, but at idle the engine sputers a little bit... and spits out a little bit of either oil or fuel... not a lot and there is not black or blue smoke to not that it moight be burning...... what do u guys think?

 

its made this sputtering before... i think it has to do with the dsm injectors runnign to rich maybe?


i noticed it doing this with the dsm injectors......hmm judging by the smell of the exhaust its self itseems to be fuel... but the liquid that its sputtering out kind of looks like oil


Modified by greekspeed at 2:14 AM 1/9/2004

 

sounds like seals...my brand new turbo leaked on the compressor side...i just sent it back

 

but its very little if any that comes out.... if a seal was ****** up wouldnt it be pouring with oil?... and my car has sputterd like that before makign me think it might not be the turbo.... keep in mind im viewing this directly off the downpipe.

 

why don't you just take turbo manifold off of the head and find out if your engine is spitting oil, if not then your turbo seal is wasted. if so then your piston rings are fried. either way oil anywhere other than the crank/engine compartment is bad.

 

They do that sometimes when they're new. Make sure your return line isn't kinked and that it's on right. It should stop.

 

Thanks for thew input man.. that maks me feel alot better... when the motor warms up it idles almost fine and there is less and less liquid comming out when it sputters... hope this is a good sign

 

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how long was it before yours stoped?

 

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how long was it before yours stoped?
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It shouldn't take very long. It also shouldn't continue. Just a slight drip in the beginning is all. There was a post on here a while back about oil in the compressor housing. It was noted that sometimes the newer turbos tend to leak oil a small amount right in the beginning sometimes.

Have you done a compression test yet?


Modified by racinskittle at 6:23 PM 1/9/2004


Modified by racinskittle at 6:25 PM 1/9/2004

 

i did a month or so before the install and everything was fine 210 across the bored.....im gonna do aother one to make sure its not the motor...

 

also not sure if this is unrelated or not... but if i rev up my motor and let off (the car is not moving) as soon as the car goes back to idle there is a high pitch metal sound, the sound is only there for a second or two, and then goes away.... it sounds like its comming from a pully or the motor or soemthing.. it doesnt sound like its comming from the turbo.