HELP! Why are my new turbos smoking???

Turbos themselves will have oils on them that will take a while to burn off at idle because they wont get very hot at idle, plus if your hands or gloves were at all greasy when you installed the turbo's then that will just add to it.
Just double check all your connections are tight, and keep a fire extinguisher handy just in case.

-Austin@STM

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Originally Posted by steve68

There was probably nothing wrong with your old turbos.
More often than not it's a broken ringland on a piston.


Pulling the plugs and having a close up look will prove it one way or the other, which is what you should have done in the first place.

Steve

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Disregard this.... useless information again. Please stop steve. Seriously. You are hurting our platform. I destroyed a ring land and it didn't burn oil.


Go drive it for 30 minutes with some good boosting in there. Most likely it is just oil burning off from working on it.
Turbos don't tend to burn oil at idle, unless something is severely wrong.

Did a guy named warren rebuild those for you?

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Originally Posted by steve68

There was probably nothing wrong with your old turbos.
More often than not it's a broken ringland on a piston.


Pulling the plugs and having a close up look will prove it one way or the other, which is what you should have done in the first place.

Steve

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Oh god here we go again

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Originally Posted by blindmist

D I destroyed a ring land and it didn't burn oil.

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I had broken ring lands on 4 pistons and it didn't burn oil or smoke lol

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Originally Posted by deathsled

I had broken ring lands on 4 pistons and it didn't burn oil or smoke lol

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See. 5 pistons with busted ring lands, no burning oil or smoke. Steve's post is just fluff. Not even worthy of that. It's just crap.

Ha, no. I rebuilt them, but I didn't clean them as well as they probably should have been. So yea, everyone is saying the same thing. Just let it burn! Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Austin@STM

keep a fire extinguisher handy just in case.

-Austin@STM

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Now this is good advice! I always carry one. It can save your ass for sure.

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Originally Posted by green-lantern

Now this is good advice! I always carry one. It can save your ass for sure.

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You know.... with as much shit as I have done/gone wrong with my car, I am AMAZED I have never once had a fire. Actually, I have never had a fire on one of my cars. But now that I see this post, I will have one.

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Originally Posted by blindmist

You know.... with as much shit as I have done/gone wrong with my car, I am AMAZED I have never once had a fire. Actually, I have never had a fire on one of my cars. But now that I see this post, I will have one.

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After I did some fuel mods I thought I should have one but then I started to think how much money I had under the hood. I should have been carrying one much sooner lol