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hey all..

recentlly blew my front turbo seal on my rb20 turbo at the track..

replaced it with hks low mount manifold hks external gate and to4e turbo....

the wastegate spring is at 10psi and im running no boost controller, as it is not tuned yet it did not see revs past 5 since i have had it running again.....

now after having it all on and running for all of 2 days the same thing has happened. ie cooler piping flooded with oil, white smoke after take off...

any ideas on prices to replace oil seals in turbo??

or if has to get some sort of part number to order such and such oil seal for the turbo??

i live in a smallish town that only has a diesel and turbo service store...???

give them a try ya rekon..

price to replace oil seal???

cheers for any help if any one can give any..

tom

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haha dropping the bombs..

yeah iv thought about that... but blowing the seal, wouldnt that maybe either blocked oil return.. ie over oilingthe core of the turbo...

would have thought low presure would have un oiled the bearings and burnt them out..

all my cooler piping is filled with oil and a small pool of oil on my turbo inlet..

their for iv put it down to blown front oil seal.. going up now to drop it off at my local turbo store to get new seals and if need be new bearings and a whole rebuild...

whats a price ny one else has paid for a turbo rebuild??

its a hks to4e turbo

cheers mate

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Totally depends on whats failed re: cost of repair

Also being an old banger bush turbo, did you upgrade the line size? they require more oil than the factory R32 item id imagine

Add in the other possibility of low oil pressure

plenty of reasons now why it could have failed.

Did you find out why your first turbo failed? That would have been the best thing to do before bolting on another

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on the hks turbo it has a small oil restrictor block on it.... it came with braided oil feed that uses the factory banjo bolt....

how could i go about finding out how my old turbo failed... take it to the turbo store and get them to check it out???

i have already taken the to4e to turbo store and they are replacing the front seal.. cost somtihng lke 50 for he sal then the labour..if it fails again il get the whole core rebuilt....

should i maybe buy/borrow a oil presure gauge??

what could cause low oil presure

cheeers

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