Turbo Problem

[Guest crushx69]

It was where the inlet side of the turbo bolt to the outlet side of the turbo basical in the middle of the turbo.

Two of the studs had broken and one of the bolts had just came out and all the bolts where loose this is to be checked at each service I to read the hand book. But you try telling ford that it had to have been missed at the last service this dose just not happen in 10,000klm it was serviced at a ford dealer. But luck there was no big damage done just a few new bolts and a seal that's all it just is 6 hrs labour as turbo has to come out.

[Paradoxx]

The inlet side bolts to the outlet side? I'm a little confused...

I take it you mean the exhaust manifold to turbo bolts. I have had dramas with another car where bolts work themselves loose and can even drop off. It would take quite a bit of force to break off studs though! Sounds a bit sus to me.

To fix the problem I got new nuts and spring washers which worked well and took up the slack when cold so no more loose nuts!

[cqae]

it is quite comon for exhaust bolts to break or come loose mainly due to constant flexing & expansion. Also different metalt do this at different rates to bolts, manifolds & turbos are all doing diferent things this is why brakeages, loosening & stuff occurs, happens to all exhuasts too not just turbos, just seems slightly worse on a turbo. Example, 4 cyl magna will almost always breaks the stud highest on the passenger side of the manifold regiualrly cos the alloy head flexes diffently to the cast manifold. And if you read your service bookx, manifolds, both inlet & exhaust are to be checked for tightnes every service. I find inlets come loose on all fors since EA pretty regularly. Given this can take 30-40 minutes on an inlet sometimes-even more on the NAs with gas, how often do you think ford do it on service?

[turb06]

Well they havnt done mine that's for sure, mines making more noise than a group of wives at a nagging party.

Dazza.

[rjn]

Sounds like what I have except it's more of a whine and it's there all the time, just not as bad when warm.

Need to check these bolts.

Just had 45k service and they couldn't hear it, I took a friends turbo ute for a drive and there is definitely no noise there although he has less than 20k on it.......

think I got a lemon, gearbox (SSS) can also take 3-4 seconds to go into reverse (and when you're doing a 3 point turn it feels like an hour!), ford said this was ok as this is within tolerance, go figure....

[Venom XR6]

As annoying as it is, it seems to be normal for BA's to take a few seconds to go into reverse, its supposed to be an inbuilt safety feature, no idea why though.

[xrdreaming]

I had a bolt fall out on me on the way to Adelaide last week and had to turn back to Melbourne to get one to replace it.

To the service manager of the Ballarat Ford dealer, "Oh you are running way too much boost and have blown out your manifold gasket, it is a full day job and expensive to fix"

I say bite me

[circusmonkey89]

Well I just had a turbo back exhaust (and other unrelated bits and pieces) installed as well as a tune. About 11psi and I gave it a squirt in 1st. I hit the clutch and there was a big hiss of air escaping from somewhere. Now ever since the boost is really loud and every time the turbo stops winding there is the same hiss of air.

I will try nipping up the bolts tomorrow to see how it goes. I couldn't see any loose hoses without getting any tools out.

[CHOMP U]

Sounds like you have blown off a pipe, check your throttle body

[discostig]

Or look for split hoses/joiners, start at the throttle body and work backwards I guess.

Edited 30/06/11 11:43 AM by -SteveR-