Riceless97
Probationary Member
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- May 23, 2016
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Gardnerville,
Nevada
So I just need some advice and hoping I can get some good ideas! So here's the story; One of my coworkers was having problems with his 97 gst spyder so he took it to some car mechanic and they said his block was cracked and it was making a knocking noise and they also said that the knocking noise was coming from his pulley. They told him is engine was blown so he was going to just sell it to picknpull but I couldn't just let another dsm go to its grave so I bought the car! Now I've always owned 1g dsms I've always loved the body style and the motors are better. That's just my opinion. But anyway I brought it home and the motor idled fine and revved fine but while driving it I noticed that the turbo was making a terrible noise whenever it would start to spool. I pulled off the ic piping and found a lot of oil with metal shavings in it. One of the fins on the turbo completely broke off and there was shaft play like no other! So I pulled off the tb elbow and there was shavings in the intake manifold. I took off the valve cover and found a little bit in there also. I have yet to pull the oil pan but I just wanted someone else's opinion if I should try to just flush out the shavings or should I completely tear down the block and redo all the bearings and get the block hot tanked and tested.