Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
02-09-2007, 09:27 PM
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Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
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Dad did some detective work and looks like he was right.......blown turbo seals. No oil in manifold, but everywhere in the downpipe and compressor. Took it all off and sending to Blaast soon and putting the stock mani on tomorrow. Just ran the feed into the dump so I should be good. Thanks alot for all the ideas and all, but definitely a suprise to me as I couldn't spot much blue in the smoke. Tore the turbo apart though, and it's not joke, haha. Over 15K miles boosted (some on and off moments), about 1 1/2 years, and the turbo is about 19 years old so I'm pretty pleased with what I got out of it.
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Dad did some detective work and looks like he was right.......blown turbo seals. No oil in manifold, but everywhere in the downpipe and compressor. Took it all off and sending to Blaast soon and putting the stock mani on tomorrow. Just ran the feed into the dump so I should be good. Thanks alot for all the ideas and all, but definitely a suprise to me as I couldn't spot much blue in the smoke. Tore the turbo apart though, and it's not joke, haha. Over 15K miles boosted (some on and off moments), about 1 1/2 years, and the turbo is about 19 years old so I'm pretty pleased with what I got out of it.
JP
02-09-2007, 10:35 PM
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Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
Originally Posted by samson
Update
Dad did some detective work and looks like he was right.......blown turbo seals. No oil in manifold, but everywhere in the downpipe and compressor. Took it all off and sending to Blaast soon and putting the stock mani on tomorrow. Just ran the feed into the dump so I should be good. Thanks alot for all the ideas and all, but definitely a suprise to me as I couldn't spot much blue in the smoke. Tore the turbo apart though, and it's not joke, haha. Over 15K miles boosted (some on and off moments), about 1 1/2 years, and the turbo is about 19 years old so I'm pretty pleased with what I got out of it.
JP
Dad did some detective work and looks like he was right.......blown turbo seals. No oil in manifold, but everywhere in the downpipe and compressor. Took it all off and sending to Blaast soon and putting the stock mani on tomorrow. Just ran the feed into the dump so I should be good. Thanks alot for all the ideas and all, but definitely a suprise to me as I couldn't spot much blue in the smoke. Tore the turbo apart though, and it's not joke, haha. Over 15K miles boosted (some on and off moments), about 1 1/2 years, and the turbo is about 19 years old so I'm pretty pleased with what I got out of it.
JP
I'm thinking if it's -15º outside then it's going to look like you're burning coolant but really it's just because your exhaust is hotter than the air around it? It would look especially bad if you had oil burning smoke in it.
The only thing that doesn't match up is the milky gross substance in your tail pipe....perhaps that was just oil residue.
Just my two cents.
02-10-2007, 09:54 AM
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Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
Originally Posted by N1ghtM0nkey
So you don't actually have a coolant burning problem?
I'm thinking if it's -15º outside then it's going to look like you're burning coolant but really it's just because your exhaust is hotter than the air around it? It would look especially bad if you had oil burning smoke in it.
The only thing that doesn't match up is the milky gross substance in your tail pipe....perhaps that was just oil residue.
Just my two cents.
I'm thinking if it's -15º outside then it's going to look like you're burning coolant but really it's just because your exhaust is hotter than the air around it? It would look especially bad if you had oil burning smoke in it.
The only thing that doesn't match up is the milky gross substance in your tail pipe....perhaps that was just oil residue.
Just my two cents.
DEAD ON!!
It was sooooo cold I couldn't distinguish ANY blue, but when I pulled it from the parking garage down to the street level I saw blue in it. Everything you said was right on the money. Good stuff. I must say I'm ashamed I couldn't detect blown turbo seals though. Thanks again fellas!
JP
02-10-2007, 12:32 PM
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Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
Thats not half as bad as one of mine. I had a cel in my old accord for about 4 years it had it from the day I bought it I couldn't figure out what was wrong to save my life. One day i was at the junkyard looking at an accord motor and I noticed the vacuum line the runs to the egr was coming from a differant source then on mine. The guy I bought it from put a dc sports intake on it and had switched up most of the vacuum lines.
I swithced everything to where it was supposed to go and the cel was gone. I'm an idiot.
I swithced everything to where it was supposed to go and the cel was gone. I'm an idiot.
02-10-2007, 01:49 PM
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Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
Originally Posted by Dmc1
Thats not half as bad as one of mine. I had a cel in my old accord for about 4 years it had it from the day I bought it I couldn't figure out what was wrong to save my life. One day i was at the junkyard looking at an accord motor and I noticed the vacuum line the runs to the egr was coming from a differant source then on mine. The guy I bought it from put a dc sports intake on it and had switched up most of the vacuum lines.
I swithced everything to where it was supposed to go and the cel was gone. I'm an idiot.
I swithced everything to where it was supposed to go and the cel was gone. I'm an idiot.
Haha, noooooo. He's an idiot. ;-D
So I'm running stock mani and have the feed into the dump for the oil. My concern that I would like some comments on is am I going to be alright running it like this with my chipped ecu? It's not going to lean out now that the turbo isn't restricting exhaust flow is it? That's my only concern really. I drove it around and it smoked then through the 2nd lap it stopped and it had all burned out so I'm pleased.
JP
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