A4 back on the road

[Brett Dikeman]

At 7:08 PM +0000 11/24/03, Robert Mangas wrote:
>   If turbine damage leads to wheel/shaft/bearing failure then the 
>compressor can come apart if it contacts the housing at 50k+rpm. 
>Since that's on the intake side, anything downstream can get hosed.

That was basically my thought, but I wasn't sure, so I wanted someone 
else to say it :-)

Basically- yeah, all hell's gonna break loose.  You might be lucky, 
but then again, you're also the guy who just had a spark plug 
disintegrate, visit a few different cylinders, damage the turbo... :-)

I think that any stuff that happened on the hot side might have the 
potential(given what that spark plug electrode did) to get back into 
another cylinder.

At least(if you gotta drive it) unplug the WGFV so you keep revs on 
the turbo low...

Are used A4 turbos that expensive?  Or it the labor the killer?
B
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