Oil leaking from turbo

[cev65]

For the past while I have noticed oil all over the starter and from end of my deuce. To some time and pressured all the oil off and fired it up to see where the oil was coming from. After it ran for a while I got looking and there is oil coming from the exhaust side of the turbo where the exhaust pipe connects. Any ideas what would cause this??

 

[porkysplace]

Seals in the turbo.

 

[cev65]

That's what I figured. Easy to replace?? Hurt to drive until I get it fixed??

 

[steelandcanvas]

Mike has written a real nice in-depth article.

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?75970-Turbo-Rebuild-3LJ-319-(Whistler)

 

[ke5eua]

That's what I figured. Easy to replace?? Hurt to drive until I get it fixed??

As far as hurt to drive, if it's the seals in the turbo it could turn into a runaway situation damaging the engine. Basically the turbo is feeding the oil into the intake and unless you block the air it will run at max rpm until it is out of oil.

 

[rustystud]

As far as hurt to drive, if it's the seals in the turbo it could turn into a runaway situation damaging the engine. Basically the turbo is feeding the oil into the intake and unless you block the air it will run at max rpm until it is out of oil.

Agreed ! I've seen this happen. Very BAD !

 

[cev65]

Where can I get a rebuild kit for it??

 

[cev65]

Right now there is a high percentage of used motor oil in the fuel. Am I lucky enough that it possibly could be unburnt fuel leaking out??

 

[porkysplace]

Where can I get a rebuild kit for it??

It is listed in post #6 of the thread steelandcanvas posted , all the information you need is in that thread if you read it.

 

[doghead]

Do you have a slobber tube extension?

 

[RAYZER]

If it was mine, I would be looking for a good used one to replace it with.

 

[cev65]

Yea there is a slobber tube

 

[cev65]

There's the oil leak.

 

[welldigger]

You need to have that turbo rebuilt.

 

[gimpyrobb]

Its not hard to pull the exhaust piece. I'd yank it and look into whats going on.

I dunno the oil seals are bad based on the pic. When you run it, does it smoke out the neighborhood? Mine did, I could shut down north AND south bound lanes on the highway!

 

[cev65]

Could it be from unburnt used motor oil?? There is a good bit of that in the fuel tank.

 

[welldigger]

Could it be from unburnt used motor oil?? There is a good bit of that in the fuel tank.

If you have that much unburnt fuel (even if it is motor oil as fuel) you have problems still. Do you idle the truck a lot? Like 30 min or more at a time?

 

[cev65]

I let it idle b4 I take it out usually to let it warm up a bit.

 

[welldigger]

A normal warm up won't hurt anything. So you either have engine oil coming through the exhaust or the seals on the turbo are giving out.

 

[porkysplace]

It is all guessing until you pull the exhaust and inspect it .