Post Turbo Failure Clean Up Help
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Post Turbo Failure Clean Up Help
Hey everyone my OEM VIII turbo had the compressor blades break and I am replacing it but I don't know how to clean up the IC of debris. Any help? And what're the odds anything made it past to the intake? Car was being softly driven when failure occurred and did not even drive a mile like so
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You can back take the intercooler to a radiator shop and have it cleaned. If you're running the stocker, its a good excuse to upgrade it...lol. I would pull the oil pan and clean it out. When my 9 turbo blew up it sent a lot of bearing shrapnel into the pan.
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I remember reading on one of the turbo vendor sites that the intercooler is a metal sponge and no metal gets through it. I don't know if that is true but it sounds right to me.
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Odds are nothing made it through the intercooler. It's a fairly dense core and can act as a filter for metal bits and pieces that could have come from the blown turbo. Clean it up at a radiator shop or use some carb cleaner and shake it up to drain it through the inlet side. Some use gasoline, I wouldn't haha.
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-pal215
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Radiator shop or find a machine shop that has an ultrasonic cleaner large enough to fit the core. Ultrasonic is much more effective. After my turbo exploded and replacing with new turbo I drove the car 10 miles on 4qt of cheap oil and 1qt of marvel mystery oil; high detergent help clean the engine of any debris. Then cut open the filter open to see how much debris I collected to monitor after next filter change.
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Radiator shop or find a machine shop that has an ultrasonic cleaner large enough to fit the core. Ultrasonic is much more effective. After my turbo exploded and replacing with new turbo I drove the car 10 miles on 4qt of cheap oil and 1qt of marvel mystery oil; high detergent help clean the engine of any debris. Then cut open the filter open to see how much debris I collected to monitor after next filter change.
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