So I doubt that there's any way you guys could actually help me with this, but whenever I do something awful to my truck the only place to go is mud. I did something really dumb the other day, and now I'm going through oil about as fast as diesel (literally), and in need of a new turbo (I hope?).
I'm actually embarrassed to even say I did this, but I was really stupid the other day and had someone weld cracks in my turbo-attachment pipe without first removing it. This was a really bad idea... I drove about 200 meters down the road before turning back, removing the turbo, and dumping a handful of metal out of it. Now it's, as mentioned above, blasting oil through the air at a rate just lower than my fuel consumption... I can only assume metal got into and destroyed the seal? Anyway the turbo's toast, so I'm going to have to have someone fit a temporary exhaust system that I can use without it, as I'm in a very remote border region between Brazil and Guyana, in the jungle where everyone who lives here is indigenous (so they say), and won't likely be able to source a replacement turbo. This was REALLY dumb of me.
So on to my next question... how much other damage have I done? Even as I did it I knew it was a dumb idea, but I rationalized it by thinking that the exhaust area gets really hot anyway, and all we were doing was sealing up cracks (it was late in the day and I'd had a few beers). The reason I actually stopped driving was because of massive pressure release from a hose on my intake which had split open, presumably due to the heat from welding so close to it. What else might have suffered a similar fate? I've noticed a new engine 'knock' or 'ticking' sound which sounds to be perfectly in tune with the revs. Until I remove the turbo I wasn't going to rule out it being caused by that, but it sounds to me like it's a valve or something? Don't know how the genius welding decision could have caused messed with the valves... maybe the heat did something to the clearances? Is all that oil going through the engine doing other really bad stuff?
I'm sitting on mud putting off actually dealing with this because I think I'll cry if I actually go outside and open the hood one more time. Anyway, just thought I'd let everyone know how dumb I am.
I'm actually embarrassed to even say I did this, but I was really stupid the other day and had someone weld cracks in my turbo-attachment pipe without first removing it. This was a really bad idea... I drove about 200 meters down the road before turning back, removing the turbo, and dumping a handful of metal out of it. Now it's, as mentioned above, blasting oil through the air at a rate just lower than my fuel consumption... I can only assume metal got into and destroyed the seal? Anyway the turbo's toast, so I'm going to have to have someone fit a temporary exhaust system that I can use without it, as I'm in a very remote border region between Brazil and Guyana, in the jungle where everyone who lives here is indigenous (so they say), and won't likely be able to source a replacement turbo. This was REALLY dumb of me.
So on to my next question... how much other damage have I done? Even as I did it I knew it was a dumb idea, but I rationalized it by thinking that the exhaust area gets really hot anyway, and all we were doing was sealing up cracks (it was late in the day and I'd had a few beers). The reason I actually stopped driving was because of massive pressure release from a hose on my intake which had split open, presumably due to the heat from welding so close to it. What else might have suffered a similar fate? I've noticed a new engine 'knock' or 'ticking' sound which sounds to be perfectly in tune with the revs. Until I remove the turbo I wasn't going to rule out it being caused by that, but it sounds to me like it's a valve or something? Don't know how the genius welding decision could have caused messed with the valves... maybe the heat did something to the clearances? Is all that oil going through the engine doing other really bad stuff?
I'm sitting on mud putting off actually dealing with this because I think I'll cry if I actually go outside and open the hood one more time. Anyway, just thought I'd let everyone know how dumb I am.
That always makes things worse than they really are.
It'll be a hell of a story/truck when it's sitting in your driveway though.
