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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: hamradio on April 18, 2008, 06:24:32 pm

Title: Does this turbo have a blown oil seal?
Post by: hamradio on April 18, 2008, 06:24:32 pm

It's a vnt15.  I put some wd40 down the oil feed, spooled it up with a shop vac on the exhaust outlet, and I *think* a little came out the compressor.  Maybe it was some overspray.  I hope it was.  I took the compressor apart, and it looks like this-
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb280/kc0kbh/P1010110.jpg)

(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb280/kc0kbh/P1010114.jpg)

The stuff on the compressor housing is kind of wet.  But, if it blew, wouldn't oil be everywhere in the turbo?

Title: Does this turbo have a blown oil seal?
Post by: truckinwagen on April 18, 2008, 06:52:17 pm

that stuff on the compressor housing looks like gunk from the crankcase breather to me, there will be some oil that comes in from the crank vent and it might over time build up like that.

Title: Does this turbo have a blown oil seal?
Post by: hamradio on April 18, 2008, 08:50:49 pm

Ok.  Thank you!  I just seem to recall horror stories around tdiclub of guys driving, and then 'boom', a ton of blue smoke, and a cat full of oil.  Or an intercooler full of oil.

On with the vnt-ness, then.  :twisted: