924 Turbo HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jb37704]

My turbo has just come back from the MOT station and after I filled the place full of smoke I was kindly asked to leave. I've got an exhaust full of my lovely new engine oil, now before I throw enough money to settle the debt of a small county at it I thought I'd get some advice.

Am I looking at Turbo failure or valve oil seals(not sure it's these as there's quite alot of oil in the exhaust)

If it's the Turbo can anyone recomend where to have it repaired.

Cheers

[bass gt3]

Go to 924.org. Tons of knowledge over there.

[wildoliver]

it sounds a lot like turbo seals.

there are a few used ones kicking around, of course they may be as bad, best bet is to find out what the turbo is and try to find a recon one, try ebay too.

[jb37704]

cheers

I've had a quote for renewing the seals for £150 so I think I'll try that.

[hartech]

Once we had this because the dip stick was the wrong one and the engine had been overfilled - took some finding.

Baz

[Henry-F]

That`s a nasty one !

Must confess verifying the length of the dipstick isn`t one of our standard Pre-purchase checks.

I used to buy the odd 911 SC in the olden days that was smoking like a good-un, so much so that you couldn`t run it up to check the levels at the chap`s house but had brand new oil. You took a punt that it was overfilled, drained a few litres down and sometimes hit lucky !

I also remember one of the first 911`s I`d bought for stock, it was every last penny I had & if it went pop Firman industries was decidedly out of business. I`d been driving it for a while & all was well until I went up a hill in the village (the same hill the grand old duke of York went up in the nursery rhyme oddly enough), there was a clack, clack , clack sound and I couldn`t see behind me for smoke. The owner had thoughtfully "topped the oil up for me" just before I collected it & as I pointed up the oil ran down & had a chat with the inlet side of the engine. A nervous few hours as I discovered the problem and sorted it out.

Ah for the good old days........

Henry

edited to say if it does turn out to be the turbo you`d probably be better off having it re-conditioned. Not a hugely expensive exercise and you don`t run the risk of fitting a worn or damaged second hand unit.

Edited by Henry-F on Wednesday 9th May 10:19

[hartech]

Henry, you have shown up your love of 911's but not the old water cooled cars and obviously never had to fit a 924 turbo - turbo - it's a t**t of a job usually finding bolts and studs corroded and sheared, manifold bolts/nuts damaged and once we had to half lift an engine out to get the bl**dy thing off - a job I would never quote on again!!!!!!!

But I must admit to having over filled my first 911 over 30 years ago - what an amazing smoke screen!!!!!!

Baz