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59 minutes ago, m sprank said:

If you could see metal in the oil you are fucked. You should have stopped then knowing the engine required a tear down.  You CAN NOT clean out the engine with oil changes. Your oil cooler alone is full of contamination right now.  You are just continuing to destroy everything old and new.  This car needs an engine rebuild and new turbo at a minimum. Buyers be aware.

You having a bad day there m sprank? So you decide to make a statement of buyers beware where no where in any of my posts have I came close to insinuating that I wanted to sell the car, which I don't. Or is it that you are warning that buyers should be aware ta stay away from your business because you go about trolling other peoples threads?

11 hours ago, KZJonny said:

Unless you confirm there was no foreign material contamination in the engine when the turbo failed, there are plenty of stories of people replacing turbos and changing the oil only to have the replacement turbo killed by metal/forbidden glitter that was hiding out in the engine and not removed by an oil change.

If you did all that, then disregard the above, just hate to see a second turbo die on you for lack of some investigation.

Here's the story on that.

This is actually my second replacement turbo. I had to return the first one because it was not producing any boost at all. Not sure what was wrong with it but the car would not go faster than 25mph. This was actually a good thing in disguise because I did multiple oil changes with this turbo. The first was was before it was installed, then again after it was pre-lubed and I idled it for a few minutes, then the last was after the first test drive when I realized it was faulty.

So the first oil change there was definitely some metal dust in the oil. The second one I couldn't tell if there was any or not, so I changed it one more time to make sure. The oil filters were changed each time as well.

So any metal dust that was in the oil went through the first, faulty turbo.

I'm a little paranoid right now about oil starvation and have read some people bypass the stock oil feed from the head. Does anyone have any opinions on this and if positive any suggestions on kits?

11 hours ago, KZJonny said:

Tend to agree. If you’ve got oil and coolant for sure, and there aren’t any strange noises…. Unless you’ve got a pretty high cost thermometer, those ones are not terribly accurate.

On the other hand… what caused the turbo failure? You are sure the root cause of that was solved?

I believe the failure was clogged screen in the banjo bolt. I never removed the screen until this happened and when I did it appeared to be pretty clogged up.

I just went a couple of miles due tot he fact that at that point it literally looked like my radiator blew and smoke was coming out the hood scoop. Fortunately I live on a hill and was able to just coast home.

I did take temps with a digital thermometer and on the exhaust side it is about 200 F moving forward to where the coolant line is the temp is nearly 2000 F. Yes 2 thousand not hundred.

I replaced the turbo in my '09 OBXT with 150K miles. I bought a new OEM turbo. Installed it but the new one gets extremely hot. So hot it smokes a lot. The smoke is not oil or coolant, it smells like hot metal. The engine itself does not over heat. The temp gauge is right in the middle.

I checked the oil supply line and it is pushing out oil. (removed the line and the fuel pump fuse and attached a baggy to the line. Then cranked the starter to get some oil into the baggy). It is also pushing out coolant. I did the same thing with the upper coolant line as I did with the oil line.

Here is a short video of it smoking. It looks like it's coming from the back of the turbo so this weekend I'm going to remove the heat shields and crawl under to take a look and double check that I torqued everything properly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d6FGnre3Cs

You might want to look at moving it to the rear.

 

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#19 part way down is the standard people do here...

I may do that down the road. But for now it's there and it works. My wife usually leaves the sun visor on the passenger side down anyway so I rarely see it.

Welcome!

 

Where did you place the antenna?

I am aiming for under the rear wing...only had the radio two years...should get to installing it. Which reminds me I have a KB shifter - two years old - need to install that thing. Rallitek RSM...one year...need to install this as well.

Installed it on the inside of the windshield per the instructions. That was the only part of the install I didn't like.

I just picked up an 09 OBXT. So far I like it.

Installed an OEM Satellite radio myself, (saved over $200 compared to having the dealer do it).

Ordered a KartBoy Shifter

Am considering buying a RaliTek Rear sway bar.