Nightlife Customs
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- Jun 5, 2013
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Phx,
Arizona
Other then the obvious I need to explain and show what happened here.
This is the old oil line that lubricated the g20 turbo that is installed on the 420a motor in my 98 eclipse
Went and purchased a new "brake line" for the turbo application at 9" rather then the 6" line I had before..
Now what I think caused the bleed (not the kink or bend.. i did that after i pulled it out to see if it was an old line and it didnt make a pop noise.. then i tried twisting the line to find out what kind of tube was under the steel braid - said screw it
) is when the motor torqued it lifted up, therefore, would tug on the part where it was connected to the turbo. So by getting a longer line - i re routed the line around the block (opposite of the cams / belts) so that there would be no chance of jerking the line and breaking it from the inside 
My question is - the turbo application is directly above the starter.. Could the oil spill that occured cause the starter to be faulty? I pretty much showered the starter in brake cleaner and made sure that the connection to the starter to the positive terminal to the battery were tight.. and they are - no wiggles.. no crank no start - assuming that the cause of the oil damaged the starter and now I may have to purchase a new starter? Electric works in the car just fine..
I dont think it has anything to do with it.. but I did install a new alternator (that was fun v.v) and there were NO how to's on a 420a and in fact.. the only thing this motor has on it for a wheel assembly is the alternator and the harmonic balancer so needless to say this was an adventure - and going to be working on uploading my videos I took on the iphone to YouTube to share here on the newbie forums 
Need thoughts and opinions
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This is the old oil line that lubricated the g20 turbo that is installed on the 420a motor in my 98 eclipse
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Went and purchased a new "brake line" for the turbo application at 9" rather then the 6" line I had before..
Now what I think caused the bleed (not the kink or bend.. i did that after i pulled it out to see if it was an old line and it didnt make a pop noise.. then i tried twisting the line to find out what kind of tube was under the steel braid - said screw it
) is when the motor torqued it lifted up, therefore, would tug on the part where it was connected to the turbo. So by getting a longer line - i re routed the line around the block (opposite of the cams / belts) so that there would be no chance of jerking the line and breaking it from the inside My question is - the turbo application is directly above the starter.. Could the oil spill that occured cause the starter to be faulty? I pretty much showered the starter in brake cleaner and made sure that the connection to the starter to the positive terminal to the battery were tight.. and they are - no wiggles.. no crank no start - assuming that the cause of the oil damaged the starter and now I may have to purchase a new starter? Electric works in the car just fine..
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I dont think it has anything to do with it.. but I did install a new alternator (that was fun v.v) and there were NO how to's on a 420a and in fact.. the only thing this motor has on it for a wheel assembly is the alternator and the harmonic balancer
so needless to say this was an adventure - and going to be working on uploading my videos I took on the iphone to YouTube to share here on the newbie forums Need thoughts and opinions
