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Oil smoke, low oil pressure-turbo or ? 200 1982

posted by  FitzFitzgerald on  Fri Jan 16 17:34 CST 2004
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John mentioned a couple of good things to check regarding the Turbo. If you have more than 1/16" of play on the input shaft of the turbo impeller, she may be at the end of her service life (bearings and seals are starting to fail). If it has about 1/16 of an inch, and she tightens up to about 1/32" after putting some oil down the oil feeder tube, then she's probably in decent shape (the main turbo bearing 'floats' on a film of oil). If there is any scraping of the impeller blades on the turbo housing, pull it immediately!

Oil in the exhaust (dark, black, etc), usually indicates a failed exhaust impeller shaft seal.

God bless,
Fitz Fitzgerald.
--
'87 Blue 245, NA 230K






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