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Starting off with a known leaky turbo... Posted by Trippp [Email]  (#138)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Trippp) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:48:05
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Howdy. Let's start this off with a I have a 01 SE v6 with a turbo that has been leaky since I bought it. If I let the car idle for more than five (on a bad day) to ten or more (on a typical day) the exhaust will contain smoke. I don't let it idle very much suffice to say and this has had the side benefit of deterring my from drive through most of the time. Never seen it smoke at a drive nor when gettin on the accelerator through but I am getting off subject.
The car was getting ridiculously hard to start cold and was funky starting warm so I decided to give it the throttle body cleaning treatment and all was well. Its starting to do both of the described things again recently so this weekend I will be buying a can of Gumout and cleaning out some oil in the AMM and the throttle body.
What bring me here and what I want to ask you is what your thoughts are on the possibility of the DICs being on their way out causing this issue? This is what ScanWest Autosport of Seattle suggested when I had the timing belt changed. Of course they had DICs available to me for the paltry sum of $350 each bank plus 2 hours labor (ha ha!) to replace them. I declined but since they suggested it I cannot get the idea of DI replacement out of my head. The CEL once came on after a particularly rough cold start (seemed to misfire on every other cylinder for about one minute whenever I took my foot off the gas but resumed missing until I got ballsy enough to attempt driving it which resulted in normal operation) a scan showed hundreds of misfires for cylinders 5 and 6 to nearly none for cylinders 1 and 2 with cylinders 3 and 4 being somewhere squarely between the ends. The exact count is lost to memory. What it comes down to is that I've convinced myself
a.) Scanwest was full of sh!t/dookie/crap and wanted to hustle some DICs to an perceived appleseed.
b.) I need to get off my posterior and change the turbo (I bought a rebuilt unit shortly after buying the car telling myself when it became a mosquito fogger I'd swap it)
c.) My air filter not having been changed in 50K miles isn't helping (replacement ordered)
d.) It may well be something else hours of searching the forum has not turned up.
What do you think? Does the airfilter door gasket need to be changed out too? To be safe I ordered one of those up as well but for future reference it'd be nice to know for sure. I figure testing the DICs this weekend is also in order (if for no other reason than to satisfy an indy induced paranoia) just to be sure but seeings as how those were replaced under recall I am not expecting anything but a solid performance in testing.
Thanks,
3p
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