Can you help me with some T25 questions?

[DJTyphoon]

Hello everybody!

This is my first post, I came here to obtain some good information about fixing my turbo problems. Let me tell you whats going on:

Car: 2G Eclipse GSX, 75k miles, no mods

So a couple years ago I had my car start smoking really bad, and I thought it was the headgasket. After some checking I narrowed it down to a busted turbo, I am thinking that the oil seals blew because I found lots of oil in the intercooler. I replaced the turbo with a used turbo I found online, supposedly had 13k miles on it. I also replaced the all the accessory belts, the timing belt, and the crank angle sensor at the same time as the turbo.

The new turbo came with a stainless steel oil feed line, and I found a fitting at Home Depot to adapt it to the oil filter housing. When installing I connected the line to the housing, and left the other end disconnected from the turbo and tried to revving the engine to get oil to squirt out. I wasn't able to get oil to squirt out, so I thought that the system might need to be closed to work and so I just finished installing the trubo.

I took the car out for a spin around the block today and everything seemed to work just great, except for it killing when I put the clutch in. I decided to head over to a friends house to try it out again, and after about 15 mi. I think the turbo blew again! I managed to make it to my buddies house, but I could hear some horrible clanky sound like a broken propeller the whole way. The car is horribly slow now, max speed 35 it seems like, and I had to hold the clutch in a bit just to make it up a couple hills on my way there.

So I'm pretty positive I need a new turbo, I shouldn't have been so impatient to not check the oil feed line. How can I check if this was the problem, and how can I ensure it doesn't happen again?

Thank you,

-Tony

 

[DJTyphoon]

I also want to add that there was a horrible screeching sound as well, at firest I thought it might have been some over/under tight belts... After reading some posts I was wondering if it might have been the turbo spinning with a lack of oil, which in turn makes the high-pitched noise I was hearing.

I'm almost positiive it's an oil feed problem, how do I fix this?

Please Help!

 

[Defiant]

The new turbo came with a stainless steel oil feed line, and I found a fitting at Home Depot to adapt it to the oil filter housing. When installing I connected the line to the housing, and left the other end disconnected from the turbo and tried to revving the engine to get oil to squirt out. I wasn't able to get oil to squirt out, so I thought that the system might need to be closed to work and so I just finished installing the trubo.

Your turbo was running without lubrication for its short, glorious life. When you need fittings for things like oil supply, don't go to a hardware store for them. It's best if you can get them from the turbo supplier.

 

[DJTyphoon]

Your turbo was running without lubrication for its short, glorious life. When you need fittings for things like oil supply, don't go to a hardware store for them. It's best if you can get them from the turbo supplier.

Word.

Shouldn't have been so impatient, I have another turbo on the way. Do you know anyone who makes an oil feed line that will hook-up without modification? Any tips for installing the oil lines on the turbo, or tests I can do before I blow another one?