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14B Doesnt Take OIL!!! ANY IDEAS??

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STEVEn95tsi

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Sep 5, 2009
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Ok guys. Now i'm finally gonna start my 6 bolt talon after 6 months. I put a 14b turbo on the car and i was getting ready to prime it. So i pulled the fuel fuse and i disconnected the ignition. Now i was cranked 5 or 6 times at 10 sec. each and had a friend look to see when oil started coming out the return line. But there was none :confused: . Bone dry. So i decided to take the oil feed line off the head and pour some oil into it and waited for it to drain out the return. NOTHING. No oil at all. It did even drain from the line. So i pulled in the intake off and i started spinning the turbine to see if that would suck the oil out the line. But that also failed. So i pulled the line off the turbo and poured oil directly into it. And it still backed up :banghead:. Spinning the turbine didnt even suck it down a little.

WHAT DO I DO??... AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG?...The turbo is used but i dont know how long its been sitting. Can anyone throw me some advice over here?...THANKS..
 
You can't just pour oil into the feed line and expect it to run out the return six seconds later. The tolerances in the turbo are .001-.002" and require a pressurized oil source.

Pull the oil cap and look for oil to squirt out the holes in the rockers while you're cranking. No oil at the rockers = no oil at the turbo; they're both fed from the same supply.
 
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