I have a major problem. My brand new turbo is leaking oil out of the exhaust side. Is this because it is not draining oil fast enough. I have a #3 braided stainless line into the turbo and a 3/8 braided stainless line out. Also, the oil drain isn't exactly pointing straight down, could this be the problem. I have alot of smoke, and I am afraid to drive the car for fear of running out of oil. Also, it is not draining straight to the oil pan. Right above the oil pan is a bolt which I removed and drained my oil back into here. Is there a possibility that that is feeding oil back into the turbo through the drain line? Anyone please help.

so are you saying you pretty much looked for a hole to plug your oil train line into? Did you do this because you didn't want to tap a hole into your oil pan?

About your oil leakage... what kind of turbo do you have? it makes it alot easier for us here on the site when we know what we're working with... otherwise its impossible to tell... in your next post give as much info as you can... make it as long as you can.. it'll only help the diagnosis process go faster.... and you'll probably get alot more replies

Edit: of course we could just look in your profile but i know I, for one, am too lazy to do that >> >> >>

This post has been edited by Doge: Oct 5, 2004 - 9:27 PM

sir, you and i are in the same boat. i think, lol. cept my oil return like is not metal. it doesnt have to drain straight down. you need to make sure it is draining back to your pan so if u did just remove any random bolt (even tho i cant see that happening...) ur gonna have to drain ur oil pan, take it out and pretap it. that'll give you a hole to drain the oil from the turbo. i got my oil leak problem solved by retightening every section of the oil feed plus the oil return. as for the heavy smoke, im workin on fixing that too. for some reason i found out that it only does that when im not under any boost.

Okay, here's the deal. Oil is fed into the turbo through where the oil pressure sensor used to be. It is drained to a plug that was right above the oil pan. If I just redo the drain and tap it into the oil pan should it work fine? Also, do I need to regulate the oil pressure from that feed? I thought I heard somewhere that this feed would put too much oil pressure into the turbo.

Its only a drain... dont think it has to be regulated. But yeah... If you havn't tapped a hole into your oil pan you're gonna wanna do that. I'm betting that's your problem. Did you install the turbo system yourself?

Yeah, I installed it all myself. I'm just going to drain it back to the oil pan and see if that works. I believe that where I am draining it to now is getting pressure. Thanks for the help. Maybe next time I won't be lazy and try to find shortcuts.

Man, you need a #10 fitting (big ass hole) and line from the turbo drain pointing perfectly down and it shouldn't be like a J, it should be ALMOST like an L where it connects with the oil pan. I say this because if it's like a J, oil will puddle underneath and won't drain in the oil pan. You need to make it perfect so the line is sloping perfectly to the oil pan.