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06-20-2011, 06:41 PM
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This smells bad. I've blown up a few turbos. They die 3 ways. Heat, oil starvation, or physical damage.
Throwing out heat or oil starvation as you worked on the intake and valve cover only. Did you have the intake filter or other part before the turbo off where something could have gotten into the intake side of the turbo? Did you have the plugs/injectors out? Could something have dropped into the combustion chamber when the valve cover was off, then shot out into the turbo when the car was started?
I'm just trying to visualize this, and it's not making a ton of sense to me.
Throwing out heat or oil starvation as you worked on the intake and valve cover only. Did you have the intake filter or other part before the turbo off where something could have gotten into the intake side of the turbo? Did you have the plugs/injectors out? Could something have dropped into the combustion chamber when the valve cover was off, then shot out into the turbo when the car was started?
I'm just trying to visualize this, and it's not making a ton of sense to me.
06-20-2011, 06:44 PM
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This smells bad. I've blown up a few turbos. They die 3 ways. Heat, oil starvation, or physical damage.
Throwing out heat or oil starvation as you worked on the intake and valve cover only. Did you have the intake filter or other part before the turbo off where something could have gotten into the intake side of the turbo? Did you have the plugs/injectors out? Could something have dropped into the combustion chamber when the valve cover was off, then shot out into the turbo when the car was started?
I'm just trying to visualize this, and it's not making a ton of sense to me.
Throwing out heat or oil starvation as you worked on the intake and valve cover only. Did you have the intake filter or other part before the turbo off where something could have gotten into the intake side of the turbo? Did you have the plugs/injectors out? Could something have dropped into the combustion chamber when the valve cover was off, then shot out into the turbo when the car was started?
I'm just trying to visualize this, and it's not making a ton of sense to me.
06-20-2011, 07:31 PM
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So car worked perfect before you took off the valve cover and intake manifold to put the pretty ones on and its a turbo problem?
Sorry but
It probably doesn't help your a girl because most guys automatically think you don't know about cars, which we know is not the case.
Sorry but
It probably doesn't help your a girl because most guys automatically think you don't know about cars, which we know is not the case.
06-20-2011, 07:34 PM
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I know lol I told them about all the codes it threw, the possible air leaks and whatnot...but I mean like I said if they want to give me a new turbo more power to them, as long as they find and fix the problem.
06-20-2011, 07:44 PM
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I hear you, but the only bad thing is if they create more problems then they fix in the process of trying to fix it.
