Unfortunately, I don't have VCDS. I blew the turbo some 6 months ago after an oil pump failure and it's been sitting since. The oil was also gunked up pretty bad.
I have fired it up a couple of times for a minute or two and have never seen anything like the smoke that is coming out of it now. What changed? I replaced the turbo.
There doesn't seem to be any loss of power and no codes show up (CEL, etc.). There is however a ton of white smoke - I mean a lot. I'm at a loss for what to do and/or check next. I don't have a shop, I'm broke and working with ratchet tools on a driveway. Yes, I did snap the turbo oil feed line and managed to break another one from my spare parts car. Disappointing to say the least. To be honest I'm pretty beat up after waiting for parts to get shipped and banging, scraping, bleeding hands to the point that they're trembling. And after I finally get the a salvaged (from a scrap yard) turbo installed I discover yet another problem: excessive white smoke.
Based on my 'wikipedia' research it may be possible that the replacement turbo is faulty causing oil to feed into the exhaust? Another possibility is that perhaps it simply needs to burn some crap in the system as a result of the previous failure?
If anyone has any advice that can point me in the right direction I'd greatly appreciate it.
I have fired it up a couple of times for a minute or two and have never seen anything like the smoke that is coming out of it now. What changed? I replaced the turbo.
There doesn't seem to be any loss of power and no codes show up (CEL, etc.). There is however a ton of white smoke - I mean a lot. I'm at a loss for what to do and/or check next. I don't have a shop, I'm broke and working with ratchet tools on a driveway. Yes, I did snap the turbo oil feed line and managed to break another one from my spare parts car. Disappointing to say the least. To be honest I'm pretty beat up after waiting for parts to get shipped and banging, scraping, bleeding hands to the point that they're trembling. And after I finally get the a salvaged (from a scrap yard) turbo installed I discover yet another problem: excessive white smoke.
Based on my 'wikipedia' research it may be possible that the replacement turbo is faulty causing oil to feed into the exhaust? Another possibility is that perhaps it simply needs to burn some crap in the system as a result of the previous failure?
If anyone has any advice that can point me in the right direction I'd greatly appreciate it.
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