civiceg500

I just looked under my car for a spot that i always thought was my clutch slave cylinder leaking, instead i had oil all over my piping that leads directly from the mouth of the turbo. I took off the pipe and i found about 1 cup of oil came pouring out the pipe. My guess is that the retun line isn't cocked at the right angle. The line comes straight down from the return, but as it goes to the pan it has to be on an incline and i guess the oil bearly makes it back to the pan and stay in the turbo. It's been like this for 7 months on a brand new turbo. Bad call on the return line setup, cause i had to work it around the exhaust. If i change the return line out into a better place amd correct angle, will i be able to save the life on the turbo? Or is this turbo shot? It was a half *** setup, but i know how to do it right now.

hotrex

only one way to find out, clean the turbo, fix the line and see if it still pushes through the seals.

maybe run a oil line restrictor and kick it down to 30 or so psi and see if that helps.

civiceg500

True i'll do that. I was also thinking that since i have alot of oil that was sitting in the pipe, that the turbo may be draining just into the pipe. Maybe i got lucky, but i'll find out.

hotrex

theres no way for the drain to drain in the pipe, it was pushing past the seals. the seals may be fuckt. only time will tell