Can the Turbo oil return pipe leak?

[Glyn Harper]

I’m sure I’ll be laughing in a few months!! Hoping I can somehow get to the last bolt tomorrow. I just know that single bolt will stop it rotating. So if that’s the case why are there 6?!?! ?

[Barrykearley]

It’s easy to forgive the pain an Esprit provides

[Glyn Harper]

It’s giving me a lot of pain at the moment. 

[Glyn Harper]

Good news is that the new hose seems to be ok. I put my Chinese ‘eBay special’ usb endoscope down it and the inner hose seems to be a rubbery material rather than tubular stainless steel like the original one, so I don’t think it harmed it being kinked briefly.

[Glyn Harper]

Got the turbo off today and only had to drill into one of the manifold nuts, damaging the stud. Not too bad.

Biggest problem was getting the water feed pipe off! Need to cut it off and get a new one.

Going to re orientate it tomorrow.

Got to wait for a load of new gaskets and stuff before I can refit it though.

[Barrykearley]

Looked at mine today - whilst scampering over it connecting pipes up.

that pipe is a long way away from my actuator rod - it’s pretty much at the bottom of the turbo facing the floor

[Glyn Harper]

Any chance you could take a photo for me?

I read on a few forums it needs to be as vertical as possible to allow the oil to drain out.

[Barrykearley]

Oil needs to drain out the turbo to avoid carbonising.

ill take a picture tomorrow no problem - but it points pretty much straight down

[Glyn Harper]

Ok thanks. If mine pointed straight down I think the drain pipe would also struggle. I’ll give it a go though before tightening and refitting everything.

As close to vertical as possible is certainly meant to be better.