turbo failure - oil line plugged
12-09-2002, 08:16 AM
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Unlikely at best...
I've run turbos for decades and done teardowns of dozens. Synthetic doesn't coke, period.
Regular oil will carbonize forming a solid crystalline mass, as you describe. Synthetic oil will, at *much* higher temperatures, only form a soft "clot"; which under ANY oil pressure will break up or pass through.
You can test this yourself with a tube and torch.
The R&R for ANY engine with a failure, but particularly a "turbo failure" is to identify the specific cause for failure.
Regular oil will carbonize forming a solid crystalline mass, as you describe. Synthetic oil will, at *much* higher temperatures, only form a soft "clot"; which under ANY oil pressure will break up or pass through.
You can test this yourself with a tube and torch.
The R&R for ANY engine with a failure, but particularly a "turbo failure" is to identify the specific cause for failure.
12-09-2002, 08:26 AM
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Did Craig mean the shield that go along the engine? It is U shape, but did....
NE1 notice that it is open and facing the turbo (the hottest compenent)? It is shield again the engine but not shield again the cat and the turbo.
