Will Water Feed Banjo Work As Oil Feed Banjo

[ardie]

Ok so I was working on the car, taking it back to stock for sale late last night/early morning and finished up and went to bed. When I went back out there this morning to look at it in the daylight I realised that I had used the block banjo from a spare water feed line as the oil feed banjo on the turbo if that makes sense. Looking at the two side by side, their dimensions are very similar with the water banjo being longer. They both run the same threads obviously, so this begs the question, do you think Ill be able to get away with leaving it in there? Only reason is I find it really hard to get time to work on it given work commitments and others but at the same time I don’t want to sell the car as a lemon

Cheers

Ryan

Edited February 13, 2008 by ardie

[ardie]

nobody?

[Beer Baron]

so you used a slightly longer banjo bolt? the only thing I can think of sometimes there is a restrictor built into the bajo bolt and a water feed will most likely be flowing more than an oil feed.

providing the orrifice inside the bajo bolts are the same (could be hard to check for certain) and you had it seated down on the washers properly it 'should' be ok. but I honestly think you'll feel better once you swap it. turbo oil feed is a pretty crucial thing to ensure long happy turbo life. too much, or too little oil and you have problems. and if it leaks even worse as it's under some decent pressure, and hot oil, onto hot manifold = fire.

[stolen_s15]

Ryan I just put a hiflow on my car last week and I noticed that the oil and watre bajnjo's were quite different. I cant remember exactly what the differences were but I do remember thinking they were not interchangeable.

Sorry for being a bit vague, lol.

[ardie]

ok so im trying to put in the oil banjo back in atm and it just doesnt seem to have the length in the thread for some reason?It will thread in for a thist or two and then stops, it almost feels like its the wrong thread, and then when i sit the two next to one another the threads seem no to match up which has me thinking that the one that I thought was the actual oil feed banjo may not infact be it

So I think I have gotten the bolts mixed up. Bothe the bolts are more or less the same when I sit them next to one another, the one that I think is the "water" actually has a slightly smaller internal diameter, with the only real difference being the length of the thread

[SirRacer]

I dont really know dude, but ive got 2 sitting here in front of me (banjo bolts i presume your talking about) and they are completely different width and length wise.

If you mean the hose tails (the piece the banjo bolt goes into) they are slightly different size depending on what they have come from.

What turbo is really teh question. The garrett gt series doesnt use much oil. I went with -4 line for the bling factor.

[ardie]

Ok so to clarify, its a stocky as Im taking the car back to stock.

And the banjo bolts I think I have mixed up are the oil feed that screws into the turbo, and the water return banjo that screws into the block

If anybody could tell me what sizes they are, that woudl be awesome

Cheers

Edited February 14, 2008 by ardie