3.2 Gen 3 turbo just died on me!

limuman · Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:53 am

Hi Guys,
For a few days i had been noticing a bit of smoking from the tail pipe but it was not that bad. I decided to do an oil change and replace the filters. Restarted: all was good for a few minutes and then smoke (white) just started blowing from behind.
I disconnected the air out let from the turbo so i could see if the turbine was turning. stated the motor and noticed quite an amount of oil being blown out from the the turbo

Obviously oil seals in turbo are gone completely. my question is, can the oil seals be replaced. Any info how this is done will help.
Mits dealer here (Botswana) is asking for P27 500 for a new turbo.
Another question, i found a second hand one for a 2.8 at a scrap yard (P4000 and negotiable

) can it be fitted onto a 3.2.

4ePajero · Mon Feb 10, 2014 12:28 pm

Don't even start it again. You don't want a runaway engine.
2.8's turbo won't work.
If the only fault is the seals, you should be able to have it refurbished for a fraction of the quoted costs, even taking courier costs into account.
(One of the members will pitch in with a workshop in one of the major centres in RSA)

limuman · Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:23 pm

Thanks Gerhard, will not try the 2.8. its only that desperate situations trigger desperate thoughts!

If anybody knows a good workshop where i can send my one for refurb please post details. I found a company called Turbofix. Here is their website.

http://www.turbofix.co.za/index.html

Anybody knows anything about them?

4ePajero · Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:10 pm

Why don't you ask them for a quote / estimate?

limuman · Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:16 pm

They say R6200 on exchange basis. I send them my damaged one and pay the R6200 and they give me a recon with 6 months warrant. I think its good deal.

4ePajero · Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:55 pm

limuman wrote:They say R6200 on exchange basis. I send them my damaged one and pay the R6200 and they give me a recon with 6 months warrant. I think its good deal.

Sounds very good to me!

4ePikanini · Tue Feb 11, 2014 7:51 am

Give turboexchange a call. I ordered my seal kit for my Touareg turbo (Garrett GT 2056v) from them. It was about R1200.

I replaced the seals DIY and it has been fine since then.

limuman · Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:48 am

Thanx Marius will check these guy. And thanks all for your input it surely doesn't feel like the end of the world anymore!!

Entabeni · Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:28 pm

Hello there Limuman, from Entabeni with 2006 Gen3 3.2 DiD LWB GLS Auto with 204,000 km on clock.

I don't think that your test positively proves that the Turbo seals have gone. I had a similar problem recently which I found to be a cracked piston, as reported in an earlier Post.

My first test was to remove the breather pipe from the tappet cover into the larger pipe feeding air from the air cleaner into the turbo unit. On restarting the pajero, clouds of white smoke amd oil droplets came out of the breather and less from the exhaust and it was clearly misfiring on one cylinder! That indicated a hole, or broken piston rings, in one of the pistons.

The next test was to find which cylinder. I removed the EGR pipe, brackets, the tappet cover and the glowplugs. I made an adaptor which I could screw into each glowplug socket in turn to see if that cylinder could hold pressure from my tyre pump compressor. It turned out that cylinder 2 could not hold any pressure, and I could hear the air blowing up through the timing chain cover. When I eventually removed the piston, after a hell of a lot of dismantling, it turned out that piston 2 had cracked 3/4 way across its top and down to the gudgeon pin! My photos in a previous Reply post. Hope that yours is a simpler case!

Regards, Entabeni