Help Turbo Oil Drain issue
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Need some help, I discovered an oil leek today and have found that the Turbo oil drain is broken badly, its the alloy part that connects directly to the turbo, is seams tha flange that the silicone pipe goes on has detached from the alloy housing, looking closely it looks like its a pressure fitting, I can only think that the heat from the turbo has caused the casing to expand and therefore the sleve has come out ! , I have never heard of this happening before !.

Can anyone advise where I can get a new replacement ASAP as was planing on going Riv Run next week .

Cheers



http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/n483/r...1/oilddrain.jpg

could try brazing it

Done now needs redoing lol

can't braze aluminium to steel

is it not all the same material?

Edited by wng691s clubby on 28th Apr, 2012.

Done now needs redoing lol

http://jbweld.net/products/jbweld.php

500 deg F, aluminium / steel, chemical resistant... worth a try if you cant find a replacement part in time.

I would try epoxy clue.
It sounds silly, but it has worked quite a few times for me.

If i have more toys than you when i die, I WIN

I have one here somewhere if you can't fix yours ontime

I have one somewhere. But mine has been chemical metalled up on the flange, as it had cracked. It was fine for 3 years like that.

To repair you could:

1. Get it welded
2. You could tap a thread in the body and screw a threaded tube in
3. Get some ally tube the and press fit it back into the housing and loctite
4. JB weld it up

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www.fusionfabs.co.uk



1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

i just pressed mine back in with the vice....

how loose is it?

My small bore turbo project http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=473901

id press it back in with some epoxy or a sticky silicone selant.

turbo 16v k-series 11.9@118.9 :)

Denis O'Brien.

Thanks for the advise, it is tight and won't go back in, I think heat and pressure will put it back but I'm not sure I can trust it to hold. I am going to try a local engineering workshop tomorrow, I want to see if they can make an alloy tube and weld it together I can then be assured it won't fail .

Cheers

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-Turbo-Metro...=item4603606b27 heres one

Done now needs redoing lol

gaffa tape!

I have one you can borrow to get you to the riv run/back on the road. Then when you buy another you can send me that one

buy one of these....

http://www.force-racing.co.uk/engine/

top of the page......will make it go faster too, saving all those grams...

"Cars are a lifetime of pain"

That's for the block he's after the bit turbo end

Edited by bennyy on 2nd May, 2012.

Audi s4 b5 - 470bhp & 486ft lbs

On 30th Apr, 2012 Brett said:
yeah stick the bit in and give it a wobble

I have several of these if you're still stuck.

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