HELP! Why are my new turbos smoking???

[blindmist]

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

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.

[Lithium]

Did a guy named warren rebuild those for you?

[Unknownvr4]

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

Oh god here we go again

[deathsled]

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

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

[blindmist]

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

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.

[hitman17]

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.

[green-lantern]

keep a fire extinguisher handy just in case.

-Austin@STM

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

[blindmist]

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

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.

[green-lantern]

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.

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

[J_Parker]

A little off topic but I had an oops when I was cleaning my engine block up a while back. I was cleaning the block with brake clean letting it sit for about an hour then hit it with a torch to clean all the old oils and dirt off etc, but what I had disreguarded for the first time ever was the pile of floor dry under the engine stand that had been soaking up all the excess brake clean... Well there was some brake clean left in the oil passage in the block and ignited while hitting it with the torch... No big deal, but... A flaming drop managed to make it's way to the floor dry below... Needless to say a can and a half of brake clean was quite the blaze I always keep a fire extinguisher in arms reach, and luckily I did then too, or my dad wouldn't be so much of a happy camper ... The engine block was extreamly clean though


As everyone is saying, just see if it'll burn off. My Soarer blew the turbos and head gasket and it took near to three hours for the excess oil and coolant in the exhaust to burn off. As well as when I put the second set of new turbos on there was a good bit of "anti-rust" oil coating on them that took I'd say about 1/2 hour to cook off.