16g not getting oil!!

[copper]

Hello everyone! So i just installed my evo3 16g and everything went fairly smoothly. The only thing left to do was prime it and then i would be able to start it. I left the oil feed line disconnected from the turbo side so i could visually see the oil coming out of it before i connected it to the turbo and, as expected, oil started coming out.

Well I start the car and everything sounds good. So i lower her and take her for a test drive around the block, again everything feels good. Immediately after I get home I lift her back up to check for any leaks and wouln't ya know it, I have an oil leak from the fitting on the oil filter housing. So i loosen the fitting up and put some thread compound on all the threads and as I'm tightening it back up again, my hand slips and rips the wire that is connected to the canister looking thing on the back of the oil filter housing (kinda looks like a wastegate actuator to me)

I fix the wire and then i finish connecting the oil feed line. I left the turbo side off again. when i step in the car i notice my oil pressure gauge is maxed out. It didn't drop after time so i figured it had something to do with the wire that i had riped. So i go ahead and crank and this time there's no oil coming out. I took off the fitting on the oil filter housing and tried that, thinking that maybe the ss line was the culprit. Still nothing.

Does anyone know what can cause this? could it be a bad filter housing or the wire that i riped?
Help would be greatly appreciated, I need to fix this since this is my only car.

 

[turbodsm18]

Sounds to me as if that wire is the one that goes to the stock pressure sender....

Check to see if you ripped the wire anywhere elase...

Heres a picture that will put a label to the wires, Hope this helps a little bit..

-Kevin-

 

[copper]

yeah its the one that goes to the sender but i fixed it with new connectors and it even has the same amount of resistance as the one in my dads gst, an amazing 2-3ohms, i'll check it tomorrow to see if its getting voltage. But could that wire make it so that oil doesn't come out of the housing to the oil feel line for the turbo? thats my main concern

 

[turbodsm18]

yeah its the one that goes to the sender but i fixed it with new connectors and it even has the same amount of resistance as the one in my dads gst, an amazing 2-3ohms, i'll check it tomorrow to see if its getting voltage. But could that wire make it so that oil doesn't come out of the housing to the oil feel line for the turbo? thats my main concern

Dont rely on this post 100% but I believe all that wire does it powers the stock gauge....It should have no "mechanical" use....

When you ripped that wire apart, did you happen to bump the pressure sender?

-Kevin-

 

[copper]

Dont rely on this post 100% but I believe all that wire does it powers the stock gauge....It should have no "mechanical" use....

When you ripped that wire apart, did you happen to bump the pressure sender?

-Kevin-

No, I didn't bump anything else, which is why this has me so stumped. Its not like i slammed my hand against the wire at full force, it actually came apart very easily at the connector that clips on the housing. At first, I also thought that the wires only purpose was for the stock gauge but it just seems like too much of a coincedence that I lost oil flow out of the housing to the feed line.

Any other ideas? I basically have 2 days to fix this

 

[copper]

so i still haven't figured this out. Should i look into using the head for the oil feed for the turbo or is this something i'm going to have to fix no matter what?

 

[optional187]

That wire's been disconnected on my car for three years or so...it should have nothing to do with the actual oil flow, just the guage.

other than that i have no idea what to tell you.

 

[copper]

ok so I figured this out. The only way I was able to get oil moving through the oil feed line was to start the car and immediately shut if off. I did this a few times until finally a bunch of oil started coming out. I made sure to put oil in the turbo with the help of a spare line I had laying around while doing all of this. Now the car runs great and am very happy with my first turbo install.