Blown turbo?

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IanFM

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Hey i think i may have just blown my turbo. No boost and a bunch of smoke out the back. Question is is it safe to limp home?
 
Now not sure if that is the problem. Smoke coming out of exhaust smells like burnt rubber and my coolant level seems to have shot up above the max.
 
A hose cld of blown off! Funny as mine blew off today,loads of smoke,no power.
The hose off the egr (allard) pipe.
 
I seem to be losing oil as well and its not coming out the bottom so presumably its getting burned off
 
Its in the garage at the moment so should know soon. Just been quoted £275 for a full refurb by a turbo specialist. If that turns out to be the problem does that seem about right?
 
i blew mine not long ago and bought a turbo technics cartridge and rebuilt the turbo with that as the original turbine shaft had snapped, had to take all pipes and intercooler off to clean out all bits of metal and oil!
gave it an oil change and its been sweet since cost me £100 delivered for the part and half a days work to do but i took my time and cleaned everything right out including inlet manifold.
 
What a carry on that was. Right enough turbo absolutely shot. Garage wanted £1200 so i picked it and trailered it away. Started to strip it down to fin someone had rounded on of the bolts that holds the turbo to the exhaust manifold so inlet off and then turbo and exhaust manifold off in a oner.
 
Oh dear.

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Phew,i do none of the above.
Yep. Deffo time for upgrade and it'll be cheaper than garage :)
 
Turbo dropped off for a rebuild due back tomorrow and picked up oil and filters from tps.
 
Obviously all boost hoses and intercooler will be Coming off to get cleaned but with all this off is it worth removing the sump and cleaning it at the same time?
 
Pull old oil filter apart and see how much "glitter" is trapped, if there is (highly possible if shaft bearing on turbo collapsed) I would put cheap oil and new filter in for 200 miles... then drain again and put the good stuff in and new filter.
Also some turbo (re)manufacturers only guarantee their work if oil supply pipe is replaced at same time (tps for standard or darkside for flexible one).
 
I've ordered the flexi one from darkside already. I was planning on running cheap oil through for 10 mins then drain again and put the quantum stuff in at that stage.
 
All ready for tomorrow.

New oil and filters from tps
New oil feed line, inlet and exhaust manifolds from darkside
Rebuilt turbo from glasgow turbos

Hopefully all goes smoothly tomorrow.
 
Not convinced my turbo rebuild is quite right as it starts to whistle at just over 2000rpm.
 
Oops turns out what i was actually hearing was a boost like from a hose that some idiot hadn't tightened back up.
 
Easily done, glad you've got it all sorted..

I had the hose blow off the turbo on our landy whilst giving it some proper welly, massive whoosh of air, immediate no power and **** loads of smoke.. crapped myself, thought I'd killed it.
The hoses can get oily and slippery after several k miles...
 
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Well driven about 30miles and all seems good. Randomly it seems to start better as well!
 
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