Help? Could This Be A Big Problem?

[Tiga_EL]

Hey guys,

Fairly new to here, and the xrt scene, but just noticed on my 03 BA XRT that theres a weird orangy corrosion forming where the water lines connect to on the turbo? Is this something that should be looked at asap? and what can be done to fix it. Also noticed that a hose to the back near the firewall, is also leaking similarly? now what im confused about is its leaking down onto the front of the transmission, but it seems to be coming from the ends of the pipe where the hose clamps are, where do these hoses go to?... Heres a few pics to give you guys an idea. Any help would really be appreciated.

[RHR]

Looking at that you might need to get some new fittings and some new hoses. Does the car have green coolant?? or is it running straight water

[Mike XR6T]

take the offending hoses off clean the crap off, refit with a smsall amount of grease to help seal and to make it easy to reattach and replace hose clamps with some good quality nones not the standard sh*t ones.

then check condition of coolant and flush and replace if required

as robbo said if the fittings look bad replacement

[Tiga_EL]

Yeah its got green coolant in it. The one near the transmission, had a leak, but it all dried up, and sortof crumbled on my figer when I touched it. Thanks for the replies, ill give it a shot guys.

[RHR]

No worries mate. We're all here to help..

[Tiga_EL]

Thanks guys, got it all sorted, tightened a few hose clamps and cleaned up the pipes, seemed to have the leak throught the hoses. As for the turbo fittings, ill probably be getting that sorted sometime next week.

On another note though, I pulled off the piping from the turbo off, to fit a "dose pipe" but got over it pretty quickly and fitted it all back to standard. Whilst doing this I also pulled off the pipe from under the battery, to get easier access, and refitted it also. Now its all back to normal, until I drove it for a couple hundred K's, gave it a squirt and somethings popped off.. SO I check all the pipess!!! over again took em all off and made sure there was no gaps and everything was tight.. But I think I have a huge boost leak somewhere. When the turbo kicks in its almost like the BOV is open like all the time!! I can hear it loud, but its not like spool sound its like the BOV opening sound. I also had flutter normally with the standard pipes, but since this I just hear a massive whoosh, and no flutter. Is this possibly wastegate related? something fallen off? Any ideas wherelse I can check, Im 100% sure there no leak from the cross over pipe, or the under battery \pipe or the turbo to crossover pipe.

THanks

[ebxmple]

What about the cooler pipe from the turbo to the cooler? They are known to pop off at the cooler end if they have the sh*t style clamp on them.

[Tiga_EL]

Well after checking every single pipe and hose like 14 times over, finally figured out it was a split throttle body joiner, which connects to the cross over pipe! what a painn in the ass! Fairly petty thing, but some other novices like myself might find that helpful in the future!