Smoke everywhere
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3.0 BAR
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 5,271
Smoke everywhere
well guy's had a smoky little problem tonight. I was tooling down the freeway and all of a sudden after I made a boosted pull I saw clouds of smoke billowing out from behind me. i've never seen a car puking up so much smoke in my life!!! All I was saying was "please be no cops, Please be no cops".
I got it home safely to discover my oil return line had kinked and the turbo was just drowning in it's oil. I fixed the line and fired it up. It still smoked, but I expected that... half an hour later even after driving it again it's still smoking pretty bad. I think I may have screwed up the oil seals pretty bad. like to the point of rebuild. Has that happened to anyone else? My seals were perfectly fine and didn't burn oil before the kinked line. Now, I feel like the Cheech and Chong weed van going down the road
I got it home safely to discover my oil return line had kinked and the turbo was just drowning in it's oil. I fixed the line and fired it up. It still smoked, but I expected that... half an hour later even after driving it again it's still smoking pretty bad. I think I may have screwed up the oil seals pretty bad. like to the point of rebuild. Has that happened to anyone else? My seals were perfectly fine and didn't burn oil before the kinked line. Now, I feel like the Cheech and Chong weed van going down the road
thumbs up 4 heater hoses 
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3.0 BAR
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 5,271
Re:Smoke everywhere
jesus guy's it's not as ghetto as it sounds. It's just a piece of hose with 2 fittings at each end. Works just fine for right now. but hey i'm open to any donations so I can afford one of those sexy Stealthmode return lines 
1.5 BAR
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 808
Re:Smoke everywhere
it might not be too fucked. Same thing happened to me. MY return line kniked and the car smoked like a **** and smoke was billowing. So I took the turbo kit off to fix it and my car still smoked for a day or two. Just oil in the exhaust pipes. Cleaned the turbo put it back on and no smoke. Oil in your exhaust takes a while to burn off. Took 2 days na for me.
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3.0 BAR
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 5,271
Re:Smoke everywhere
yeah I'm sure there's still oil in the exhaust, but it seems to smoke alot more just after I boost it. I'll just have to keep an eye on it I guess for now. I might have a good deal on a rebuilt center section, so I might go for it anyway just to be safe.
