dronek75 said:
Are you sure he even replaced the turbo? Turbo can not flood cylinders with oil or gas.
What are the actual symptoms of your problem? Failed turbo is almost unrecognizable by average driver. The car is normally driveable and does not exhibit any symptoms. So how do you know the turbo is gone?
well here is what happend...I was driving to the store and all of the sudden i started feeling like vibrations under the gas pedal then engine start vibrating , check engine light started blinking, so i pulled over immediatelly after that, turned off the engine, waited a few minutes, turned it back on, engine was still vibratinig/shaking "check engine" light was ON at all time, so i was bale to drive back (thankfuly only about 1 mile) home and that was it...before all that for a couple of weeks while driving on idle i had misfirings on spark plugs and started loosing the power, no matter how hard i pushed gas pedal it still was driving like a mule. I took a car to the shop, cylinder # 2 was floaded, oil was in some pipes when the disconeccted them somehwere under the car, piston was all wet on top when he showed me with the flishlight once he pulled off sparkplugs, car was till misfiring when the guy took it for the test drive when i dropped my car by his shop. Verdict of his: Bad turbo had to be repalced, i left the car he called me next day and said that they still having a problem with that cylinder # 2 after that they figured out that some electronic module for the price of almost $400 from dealership needed to be replced as well to get this cylinder to work. The whole cost was about $1800 ; turbo $600, module $400 plus labor.
Now something again, one the cold engine when i turn it ON there is a blue smoke coming out of the exchaust ( did little over 2000 miles since thet repairs with turbo) actually i have seen this smoke for some time now after i picked up my car, the bluse moke shows up also once i'm taking off. I went back to the guy that worked on my turbo and he said there could be a mayor problem with the engine
but i didn't belive him and went to another shop , there is a a guy that had a twin turbo on his mitsubishi 3000GT ( 400 ponnies on the whels) so he is quite familiar with turbo issues and he told me that could be a bad turbo again or valve seals but messed valve seals on the car that has 70K on it could be weird.
So I'm totally confused now, cur seems to be running fine, but this blue smoke is bugging me all the time, also I have to add about 1 US quart of engine oil after just 2000 miles, after i picked up the car after turbo has been repalced. I'm tataly confused, where the hell could be a problem :???:
My guess:
your ICM module failed (common at your mileage/year), preventing #2 spark plug from firing. this soaked down the cylinder with FUEL and caused your rough running. turbo was probably OK. the guy should have scanned codes and seen the misfire and fixed that first.
It's normal for these cars to get small ammounts of oil all throughout the intake system and breather system, however not enough to cause smoke or show up on the plugs.
So, now if you are getting smoke you could now have a bad turbo that is leaking oil from its bearing into the air intake/tract in a large enough quantity which is being burned. I would pull the turbo and get it checked out. If bad, either get a low-mileage used turbo from the club or buy a new one from a cheap place on-line. This motor is good for 200k-300k miles easy so I doubt any internals are worn to cause the smoke (ie rings, seals)
