Some news about the old turbo,started it again today with the air filter intake off, while it was idling the compressor wheel was spinning as I also mentioned before, today I decided to try and slow down the wheel by stopping the shaft with my fingers, there is plenty torque to the compressor wheel but I can stop it, as soon as I leave it, it starts spinning again, to me it's clear the shaft has not snapped, it seems to me the exhaust wheel is minus some fins and that is why it's not building boost..minus some fins might be an understatement.....
Demigod...The hopefull quest for more...
Bud, if the turbine has some blades missing your whole turbo would be beyond fubarred right now ! It would vibrate and disintegrate most spectacularly !
Your turbine shaft is ok..no broken or missing blades.
It does make a blowing sound..or whining...and rattling sound, starting to smoke now aswell b
Hey cuz, the rattling and whining is most probably tumble and or a crack on your wastegate port.... Had the same shit on my buddy's KKK on his opel.... U gonna have to take off and see my friend..... Even a hairline crack would do it.....
You could get it welded but not to great for reliability..... Usually caused by.....
Tumble: Turbo flutter causing excesive wear on bushes n stuff
Crack: From not warming up and down or running turbo in properly or sufficient oil flow due to the same reason
Both can cause bad boost leeks causing the loud wistel or whining
If u got external wastegate though, then welding up the std wastegate port would work nicely, or the crack if no wastegate port on turbo
P.S. Could be under correction but that's from my experiance....
Hope it not bad though and u can get it sorted chop chop, looking forward to riding wit ya cuz...
I don't have an internal wastegate, mine comes streight out of turbine..into downpipe...
The reason why I take 20 minutes to jack up my car...I need a lower jack...I know..
The reason demigod did not get any boost...
The reason I started to notice white smoke...
Hopefully new turbo on order by the end of the week...
holy crap... thats hectic man!
oh and ive got the same problem with the jack! hahaha
Pity about the turbo mate, hope you come right with another one.
I've been looking out for those low profile "racing" jacks but they seem hard to come by. Tired of struggling to jack up my car as well now
Riekert wrote:
holy crap... thats hectic man!
oh and ive got the same problem with the jack! hahaha
At least I now know what the problem was....it was bothering me plenty...
Daniel wrote:
Pity about the turbo mate, hope you come right with another one.
I've been looking out for those low profile "racing" jacks but they seem hard to come by. Tired of struggling to jack up my car as well now
Saw a pamphlet from adendorffs...seems they have those low jacks...
You can thank me later... 🙂
Draco wrote:
Riekert wrote:
holy crap... thats hectic man!
oh and ive got the same problem with the jack! hahaha
At least I now know what the problem was....it was bothering me plenty...
mmm true. hate it when I don't know whats wrong...
Draco wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Pity about the turbo mate, hope you come right with another one.
I've been looking out for those low profile "racing" jacks but they seem hard to come by. Tired of struggling to jack up my car as well now
Saw a pamphlet from adendorffs...seems they have those low jacks...
You can thank me later... 🙂
Brilliant thanx!
http://www.tooltime.co.za/Products.aspx?cat=69
I will have to go look at them sometime, the bottom two seem to fit the bill.
looks good 😀
Genius aint it....now where is the money!!!!
Where did the rest of the turbo go?
U mean the aluminum "shavings" of the blade and housing....checked the pipes and so forth...spoke to some people and the consensus is that I don't need to worry to much, if there was bigger parts of the blade broken off that would be a problem....but it looks like very very fine "dust" almost...should have gone in and out without causing damage...
OK thats good to know 🙂
It still worries me in the back of my head....but what the hey....what will be will be...
Something I have not mentioned, due to the top mount mani being of such a nature that you have to remove the power steering pump and bracket to install or remove the many, I decided to remove the aircon pump, the aircon is now out, aswell as the aircon radiator, next thing is the abs....
is it a mission to remove all those things? can u fit the mani and turbo over the week end? or do u need more time?
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