turbo destroyed
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Not ducks... GEESE!!
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From: METAIRIE, LOUISIANA
Hey guys, don't really know the innards of turbos work, but is it possible that the gasket, which was about the size of a 3 inch hose clamp but rubber, got shot back through the exhaust side of the turbo and just went out of the exhaust?
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Nope. If it gets sucked into the compressor wheel, it has to go out the compressor housing outlet, down the I/C tube, through the I/C, back up the other I/C tube, through the manifolds (which DO have screens on them!), into the heads, through the intake valves (then survive getting burned durning combustion), back out the exhaust valves, through the exh manifolds, up the up-pipes.....BIG BREATH.....then through the exhaust housing in the turbo, and out the exhaust.
I'm betting there's debris in the hot side of I/C...
I'm betting there's debris in the hot side of I/C...
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The IC (intercooler) looks like a radiator and sits right in front of your radiator. If you follow the big aluminum tubes from where the turbo is, you'll see the run to the front of the truck and attach down low to the IC.
Grab a socket and loosen the hose clamps on the aluminum tube (the one with foil wrapped around it) and remove that tube. See if you can find any pieces of that collar where the tube connects to the IC.
Grab a socket and loosen the hose clamps on the aluminum tube (the one with foil wrapped around it) and remove that tube. See if you can find any pieces of that collar where the tube connects to the IC.
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Nope. If it gets sucked into the compressor wheel, it has to go out the compressor housing outlet, down the I/C tube, through the I/C, back up the other I/C tube, through the manifolds (which DO have screens on them!), into the heads, through the intake valves (then survive getting burned durning combustion), back out the exhaust valves, through the exh manifolds, up the up-pipes.....BIG BREATH.....then through the exhaust housing in the turbo, and out the exhaust.
I'm betting there's debris in the hot side of I/C...
I'm betting there's debris in the hot side of I/C...
Not all of them have screens on them. My truck does not have them. Have to stuff rags down the plenums whenever I remove the Y-pipe for safety's sake.
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From: METAIRIE, LOUISIANA
The IC (intercooler) looks like a radiator and sits right in front of your radiator. If you follow the big aluminum tubes from where the turbo is, you'll see the run to the front of the truck and attach down low to the IC.
Grab a socket and loosen the hose clamps on the aluminum tube (the one with foil wrapped around it) and remove that tube. See if you can find any pieces of that collar where the tube connects to the IC.
Grab a socket and loosen the hose clamps on the aluminum tube (the one with foil wrapped around it) and remove that tube. See if you can find any pieces of that collar where the tube connects to the IC.
Yea, I pulled the IC tube (the one with the foil) back when this incident occurred, and reached my chubby, short fingers into the intercooler inlet as far as I could, but no cigar. Are the guts of intercoolers the same as radiators? because if so then the peice or peices couldn't pass through, could they? And FYI...with all due respect, my IC tube no longer has foil wrapped around it... I'm WAAYY to cool for that! But I knew what you meant...
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IIRC, my '01 has screens in the plenums, but my friend's '00 didn't when I rebuilt his turbo and had the spider off.
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Maybe when they went to PMRs they also added screens.
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