Repair pass side header now no boost

[Rugby]

I need some help. I just welded up my pass side header now my car will not build boost. I took I short video of what it sounds like trying to spool up.

I hope this video works.
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/...6-3912-4E4D-BAAB-5B212D2153D5_zps5obc64gi.mp4

Brandon

 

[earlbrown]

Put the car in drive and try again.

 

[Rugby]

That was reverse with the brakes being held. It makes that noise right at 2k rpm.

Think i found my answer. http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/threads/sounds-like-a-siren.397319/

Not an upgrade I wanted to do yet.

 

[earlbrown]

pop the MAF hose off and see if it turns effortlessly with your fingers. Also check and see if the compressor wheel has cam in contact with the housing.

 

[Rugby]

I pulled the exhaust elbow off and it turns freely. There is a little bit of up and down movement in the turbine wheel like the bushings are starting to wear. Not sure how much movement is normal for these cars.

Can you buy replacement wheels and shafts for these turbos?

Brandon

 

[earlbrown]

Up and down motion is normal when the engine isn't running. You just don't want it loose either wheel can contact the housing and you don't want any 'in and out' play (giggity).

Did you look at the compressor wheel on the intake side too?

 

[TurboBuRick]

Forget to hook up waste gate actuator?

 

[Heisenberg]

Yeah - I remember that snipe hunt / process so fondly.
Hopefully you don't find one of these in your exhaust housing.

Mine spun freely as well.
Until it didn't

 

[John Larkin]

Yes you can rebuild your own turbo. Is it stock? It looks like a stocker. Call Precision Turbo in Indiana or Limit Engineering in Arizona. Tell them what you need and they will give you the best advice since that's what they do. I rebuilt my stocker and it was fine.

 

[1952ray]

Yeah - I remember that snipe hunt / process so fondly.
Hopefully you don't find one of these in your exhaust housing.

Mine spun freely as well.
Until it didn't

Long time since I heard snipe hunting

 

[Rugby]

So I pulled the turbo and pulled the exhaust side apart. It looks like a rat ate part of the wheel.
The only thing I can think of is that some slag from welding was hanging on in it, then broke loose when I fired it up.


Brandon

 

[Heisenberg]

Long time since I heard snipe hunting

LOL - We're a bunch of dinosaurs living in the past

 

[Phoneguy]

Blame it on Heisenberg.......I had nothing to do with it !!!!!!! LOL

Bryan

 

[Heisenberg]

So I pulled the turbo and pulled the exhaust side apart. It looks like a rat ate part of the wheel.
The only thing I can think of is that some slag from welding was hanging on in it, then broke loose when I fired it up.


Brandon

Well - at least you found it.
Another unsolved mystery solved.
Feel for your turbine - sorry.
I got lucky and even with a washer in there - the blades were miraculously untouched.

That must have been some crack that got welded to have (that much) slag inside the header

 

[Heisenberg]

Blame it on Heisenberg.......I had nothing to do with it !!!!!!! LOL

Bryan

Dood - I was just going to say - "And to think - Bryan didn't even get a chance to predict (with the mystery of a Mediterranean bazaar fortune teller) "I predict a new turbo in your future"
You missed your chance completely on this one.
It was a perfect soft pitch, and you weren't even around to swing - let alone miss.
You're slipping.

 

[Rugby]

could of had been the hole I burned in it and welded up.

 

[Heisenberg]

Long time since I heard snipe hunting

I still have nightmares about being 10 years old at camp, and the counselors taking us out on a nighttime snipe hunt. Those were the days.

 

[Phoneguy]

Dood - I was just going to say - "And to think - Bryan didn't even get a chance to predict (with the mystery of a Mediterranean bazaar fortune teller) "I predict a new turbo in your future"
You missed your chance completely on this one.
It was a perfect soft pitch, and you weren't even around to swing - let alone miss.
You're slipping.

I didnt miss it...Earl beat me to it !!! LOL

Bryan

 

[earlbrown]

I'm like a K-mart radio.


I don't play.

 

[Heisenberg]

could of had been the hole I burned in it and welded up.

Ahh....is that one of those "Expensive Lessons Learned" categories on Jeopardy then..
For $300 - Expensive Lessons Learned - please Alex
"What is - burning a hole through your header and filling it with slag Alex?