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Oct 18, 2004 | 06:52 PM

ALdieselfan

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From: Guntersville, Al

Turbo????????????

I have a 2000 PSD with a banks exhaust and elbow which eliminated my EBPV. I recently noticed oil leaking from around the actuator rod. So I decided to take the internal piston and shorten the rod, plug the hole fix the leak. While I had the Turbo off I figured why not go ahead and replace the the bearings, 200K miles I figured while its off, why not. Put kit in and new wicked wheel put everything back together. Oil is pouring out my ehaust side and I can kill every mosquito in the county.
Take the turbo off agin and carried to shop. They said it just wasn't clean enough, tore it apart cleaned and put back together $110. Not bad I thought, live and learn. Installed Saturday AM and to my dismay OIL out the exhaust.
Carried back to shop today they inspected and swear it is not the turbo. That I have a restriction in the pedastal since I shorten the rod. So came home removed the piston from the pedastal unplugged the actuator and reinstalled.
Agian I have OIL on the exhaust side. WHAT the #$&*!.
Do I need a new pedastal ,, turbo or whole new engine????????
Any thoughts????

Truck has Hypertech programmer, AIS intake, full guages

Oct 18, 2004 | 09:32 PM

cookie88

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I don't see how it could not be the turbo. That is what those oil seals do. Even if it was a problem with the pedestal the oil would still have to get past the turbo in order to get into the exhaust.

You can get a non-ebv pedestal from Ford for a couple hundred bucks, but I doubt that's the problem if you followed the commonly available web instructions for fixing the EBV. Just as a shot in the dark I'd say maybe the carrier shaft in the turbo is slightly bent (or way out of balance) and chewing up the oil seals.

Oct 18, 2004 | 09:46 PM

drillerdan

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Maybe when you have the turbo off try rigging something up to put a little air pressure to the oil ports to find the leak and make sure the turbo seals aren't leaking before you install it.

Oct 18, 2004 | 11:42 PM

ALdieselfan

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I am almost hoping it is the turbo, so I can get a BB one.

The oil seals in a turbo are nothing more than a metal ring that fits into a groove in the housing and a groove on the shaft. there is only a couple of 1000ths space. Much like a piston ring works. It uses pressure from the exhaust and intake side to help the seal. What is strange is why it only leaks to the exhaust side.
Some times it doesn't pay to mess with things

Oct 19, 2004 | 04:48 AM

Kwikkordead

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I agree with Cookie here. The turbo is the last and only way that oil can make it's way into the exhaust. One thing to consider: If you really hosed the inside of the exhaust, there is a sizable amount of residue that must be burned off from the inside of the pipe. That will smoke considerably for a little while. Suggest driving it and carefully watching the smoke. If it looks like it's tapering off then it's fixed. If the leak is truly stopped it should be completly cleared out within minutes of hitting the freeway.