4th times a charm by ihavetwins

By diyauto
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3 minute(s) of a 58 minute read

1-23-2012

I wish i could dude.






2-3-2012


Well. . .

Took the FD for a spin and hadn't driven it in like a month or so because of salt on the road. decided last week after a strange 2 day rain to take the FD out. did my normal routine. warmed the car up to driving temp. then drove around a bit till it was at running temp. took it for a nice 1st and 2nd pull everything was fine. then i got hit with a huge cloud of bluish oil smoke when i came to a stop. motor sounded fine plus it was pulling 19inches of vacuum. did another pull less smoke but decided that was enough so i pulled back into my driveway and noticed a few oil drops nothing big. . . 


i decided to look in the compressor housing and rev the car the throttle cable and oil came out of the compressor housing. Figured maybe it was Crank pressure or some thing. 


then i noticed oil all over my oil drain pipe on the turbo. so i decided to just pull the damn thing.


I did replace a bad PCV valve. that was causing my dip stick to pop out and since i replaced that i haven't had a that happen but maybe that caused enough crank pressure to push oil out of the turbo. .



2-29-2012


Well my plan to swap compressor wheels was a total bust. I guess having 2 of the exact same turbo's from the same company didn't help. The shaft that fits on the T70 that isn't blown is significantly smaller than the shaft on the blown turbo. LOL. that's what i get for trying to cut corners. 


So im looking at rebuild kits for turbo's. However there are so many kits i have no idea which direction to go in. 


Anyone know what the best rout to go in with this ? Will i need balancing ?



3-27-2012


So i have a big plans for the next month or so. I HOPE I CAN GET IT DONE IN TIME. 


New aero

fix turbo.

Fix batter sliding maddness in the battery tray.

Helix coil some

Solder some damn wires clean

FIX FENDERS

AND I HOPE I HAVE ENOUGH FOR PAINT !!!







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