GirlFriends Turbo Blew

[TalonFiero]

The lowest point of the return line should be where it enters the pan, its gravity fed. You do not want the oil return line to dip down and come back up to the pan. Also the return line must enter the oil pan at a point higher than the level of oil in the pan, meaning you should be able to disconnect your oil drain line and have no significant amount of oil drain out of the pan or line. How big is your drain line? An oil drain line has to be at least -8 line or bigger I would think.

I have seen a few junkyard turbo setups with oil drain lines improperly routed and enter the pan at level below the oil. All of these blew large amounts of smoke and ruined the turbo.

Jim

[JET]

Yeah, Jim is totally correct. If you had a low spot in the line that probably caused the early death of the turbo.

[2003eclipse]

Well I am shortening the line, But would that cause a certin death of a turbo in less then 5 minutes? I do agree the line was to long. I shouldn't have listened to those who told me there is enough pressure to push the oil through the line. Yes the return in the pan is as high as it can go no oil will leak out if i disconnect the line. Thanks for the info The turbo im buying in about an hour should not blow do to the new precautions.

[JET]

The drain is a gravity feed, you don't want the oil pressure to push it through, that means there is extra oil pressure in the turbo itself then. You don't want that. That puts extra stress on the turbo seals.

[2003eclipse]

yeah Went over that and got that figured out and taken care of. My mistake listening to someone that told me that.