This is some crazy shit
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 ass 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?
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Re:This is some crazy shit
oil starvation???
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Re:This is some crazy shit
yeah no oil will do that
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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.
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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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Yeah I figured it was the bearings just went to ---- but we are going to take it off today so I should have some pics later of it.
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couln't it pull pieces of the fins into the engine? sounds like problems to me.
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