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Old 06-27-2009   #1
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Bad turbo ?

So here is the deal with my talon. It has been burning oil and a bit of coolant lately, as well as puking coolant out the overflow on hot days also. Now to most this would sound like a headgasket or bad compression right off the bat, but this car has only about 4k miles on a fresh rebuild, has a cometic MLS headgasket with ARP headstuds, and 140-145-140-145 compression with 8.5:1 pistons.

Could this be the seals in the turbo going out?

-This is the Hahn Super 20G (TDO6H20G-TDO5H10cm2)
-this turbo is water and oil cooled
-turbo has had plenty of abuse by scheides, ecoli, and I believe Slowhite over the years.

I think that is about all.
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Old 06-27-2009   #2
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Re: Bad turbo ?

HG? hate to say it
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Old 06-28-2009   #3
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Re: Bad turbo ?

i could take a look at if for free and see if it needs a rebuild, and see what i would need. just pm me and i can try to help you as best as i can!
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Old 06-28-2009   #4
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Re: Bad turbo ?

My brother has rebuilt turbos before also, so I would be doing this with him most likely
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Old 06-28-2009   #5
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Re: Bad turbo ?

Is there any coolant showing up in your oil? If the turbo is burning both, they would very likely be getting mixed together. But also, that's a symptom of a head gasket.
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Old 06-28-2009   #6
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Re: Bad turbo ?

OMG say it isn't so! That turbo has been around forever; if it was finally time for a rebuild for it, I wouldn't be surprised. Great turbo tho.
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Old 06-28-2009   #7
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That turbo is such a slut!
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Re: Bad turbo ?

Well, here's the deal. I had the car jacked up in the air today to change the oil and the bottom of the turbo had what looked like a sludgy oily residue on the bottom of the turbine housing. It wasn't dripping, but there was a pretty good layer of it. I didn't get any pics either and I wish I had. I guess I will be calling Hahn Racecraft tomorrow to get a price on a rebuild kit for it.

Seeing as how this turbo has been owned and abused by half of mitsustyle, I am going to asume it is the turbo and not the head gasket. Shit, at the very least this turbo could probably use a rebuild anyways just to freshen it up a bit.
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let me know what they charge for a rebuild kit, i might be able to get it cheaper for you!
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Well, here's the deal. I had the car jacked up in the air today to change the oil and the bottom of the turbo had what looked like a sludgy oily residue on the bottom of the turbine housing. It wasn't dripping, but there was a pretty good layer of it. I didn't get any pics either and I wish I had. I guess I will be calling Hahn Racecraft tomorrow to get a price on a rebuild kit for it.

Seeing as how this turbo has been owned and abused by half of mitsustyle, I am going to asume it is the turbo and not the head gasket. Shit, at the very least this turbo could probably use a rebuild anyways just to freshen it up a bit.
You might consider just pulling the oil drain line off and make sure its not clogged at all. That could be causing you some issue or maybe have led to this.
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Old 06-29-2009   #11
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Re: Bad turbo ?

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let me know what they charge for a rebuild kit, i might be able to get it cheaper for you!
Heard back frrom Hahn already this morning,
The kit is H RP-3005 $180.00


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You might consider just pulling the oil drain line off and make sure its not clogged at all. That could be causing you some issue or maybe have led to this.
Well, I'll check this out when I take it off, I guess I'll start with the drain line first
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k ill beat their price...
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Old 06-29-2009   #13
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Re: Bad turbo ?

Shoot me a PM if you can get a better price then.

Just make sure the kit is for a TDO6H 20G with a TDO5H 10cm2 hotside, all mitsu of course.
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you got it!
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Re: Bad turbo ?

hey thats not bad my pte 57 trim with 1000 miles on it after the rebuild just took a dump... again!
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Old 07-07-2009   #16
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Re: Bad turbo ?

Well I got a video of the smoke coming out the exhaust before I took the turbo off this weekend. Good thing I did take it off, because even if it wasn't bad it wasn't far from going bad.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=?v=0-hqOr5tz6k&hd=1
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