This is some crazy ----
#1
This is some crazy ----
Well my freind drives a 98 eclipse gst. About a week ago his car had a very small oil leak when he parked (talking like a few drops on the ground after all night). Well today he calls me and tells me that his car is smoking like crazy and his turbo is making a loud *** scraping sound and the car cuts off on him. Went up there and the car was smoking like a ----------er. So we took the air filter off and checked the fans and the fan was almost non existant and had like infinite play. Anyone ever heard of a turbo just completly blowing its bearings in a day while running stock boost like this? I have seen some fucked up turbos before but this one when you wiggled the fan you it almost fell out of the turbo. Any ideas how this could have happened?
#4
Re:This is some crazy ----
Mitsubishi turbos will do that. If you check, I bet the nut is missing or loose on the shaft. I have seen that happen lots of times, the nut backs off, the fins hit the housing and the whole turbo goes to hell.
#5
Re:This is some crazy ----
i have a turbo like that right here, well the fins anyway. the shaft between the compressor and exhaust turbine wheels broke and scraped the ---- out of both housings not to mention how much oil/smoking was going on, must have been one hell of a smoke screen... btw that was a SAAB T3 turbo...
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