Jon Clay
02-05-2005, 09:41 AM
so after a bunch of headaches I finally figured this out.
car was burning oil and it was coming from somewhere before the turbo because I have one bolt on the EM that I couldn't tighten and smoke was coming out of that crack. Then I thought if the turbo was bad it couldn't be the exhaust side because the coolant line runs to the hot half of the center section and the oil runs to the cold half. So the leak would need to be at the cold side and blowing through the intercooler, then burning up in the combustion chamber. So to eliminate that possiblity I pulled the cold side to intercooler hose off the turbo and oil poured out! I decided to try to run the car with the filter directly on the intake track (between the IC ad the turbo) and the car ran fine without any smoking.
So there we have it. my k26 is shot and I'm shopping for a replacement. If anybody has some cheap replacements let me know, I'm in the market.
btw, I appreciate all of your troubleshooting help.
Jon
car was burning oil and it was coming from somewhere before the turbo because I have one bolt on the EM that I couldn't tighten and smoke was coming out of that crack. Then I thought if the turbo was bad it couldn't be the exhaust side because the coolant line runs to the hot half of the center section and the oil runs to the cold half. So the leak would need to be at the cold side and blowing through the intercooler, then burning up in the combustion chamber. So to eliminate that possiblity I pulled the cold side to intercooler hose off the turbo and oil poured out! I decided to try to run the car with the filter directly on the intake track (between the IC ad the turbo) and the car ran fine without any smoking.
So there we have it. my k26 is shot and I'm shopping for a replacement. If anybody has some cheap replacements let me know, I'm in the market.
btw, I appreciate all of your troubleshooting help.
Jon