YUPOK
Proven Member
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- Aug 13, 2013
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Riverdale,
New_Jersey
I only drove the car 50 miles. I finally got it running right on Saturday night and it's been running good since, until my ride home from work today. I was on the highway in mild traffic, wasn't romping on it or anything only doing about 50 coasting and all of a sudden I heard a flopping from the front of the engine, lost power, two engine codes popped and started smoking big time. I pulled the turbo and the dad gum turbo shaft split in half! The compressor wheels are actually fine, no bent fins or anything, the shaft split and the wheels just flopped down inside the housings. Then all the oil and coolant started dumping into the hot side causing the smoke. It's a stock T25 and I had it all apart and installed a rebuild kit prior to fire up. The shaft looked fine when I had it apart, no shaft play no obvious issues.
Any ideas what happened? Crack in the shaft finally gave up? I got the turbo used from a DSM junkyard so I took it all apart to put new bearings and seals etc. Of all the things I thought would fail this surprised me.
Any ideas what happened? Crack in the shaft finally gave up? I got the turbo used from a DSM junkyard so I took it all apart to put new bearings and seals etc. Of all the things I thought would fail this surprised me.