OK, sadly, here I go. had a 19T compressor housing and the compressor wheel (brand new). Took the 16T off. Put the 19T compressor and the wheel on (used a good 16T centre core and exhaust housing).
Built the turbo up very carefully, everything worked as it should. Bolted on. Took it down the road. Very strange noise from the turbo. Tippy toe'd my car back to the workshop. Took the intake pipe off and the compressor wheel was easy to spin with 1 finger. No problem. Checked everything. No problems.
Took the car back out. Drove up to the A2. Drove down it. Squeezed the accelerator. Strange noise still there....hmmmmmmm 'what the hell is that?' (other than absolutely NO boost). Drove on BANG!!! TONS AND TONS of smoke from the car. Pulled off the A2 1 mile later and went back to the workshop. The tailgate and rear screen were COVERED in oil.
Pulled the turbo off.
Exhaust turbine??!! Missing??!! GONE!!!!!
Turbo centre shaft snapped. Had a look at the turbo and the compressor wheel had locked up on the 'alleged' 19T housing. Turbo had locked up under positive Pressure.
Removed the downpipe and out rolled the exhaust wheel.
Pipe was dripping with oil. Engine lost appx 3 litres of oil (exited the oil system via the turbo straight into the inlet system).
Exhaust tip was dripping oil.
Threw the turbo across the workshop and put a good (known working order turbo back on.
Now.......still S#it loads of smoke (white/grey) and a tap tap tap.
Suspected......Head gasket failure, and....bent rod. And, entire intake system needs totally cleaning of oil (and theres LOADS of it), exhaust and downpipe needs de'oiling. Spark plugs are covered. Lambda sensor very oily.
WARNING!!!!!>>>>> DO NOT BUT A 19T turbo from Kinugawa turbo on ebay.
Had the compressor checked and the housing wasn't machined to accept the wheel. (shed load of score marks on the wheel and housing). (destroyed the wheel too).
Seller states theres nothing wrong and swears the housing was machined. Score marks are evidence thats rubbish.
To say I'm angry with.........
Kinugawa Turbo (ebay) (Japanese turbo people) is a major understatement. Car will now be off road until further notice.
To busy with work to pay major attention to my poorly baby.
Late Monday will see the exhaust/intake strip/clean and a further diagnosis.
Compression test sometime tomorrow to see if its a bent rod or a tappet just starved of oil and hopefully its a tappet so a good flush and fresh oil will shut that up.
All I want to say is....durygbveiugv jkfh kuefh bhfsei nadj alfjvncm.
(That's Martian for a lot of swear words).
FFS!!!!!!!
Bookmarks