[Vwdiesel] Grenaded turbo!!!! OH! OH!

[Shawn Wright]

Your failure sounds very similar to Bjorn's (on the TDI-Conversion list). In his 
case, a chunk of epoxy used to make up a custom intake came loose and 
took out one or more vanes. At the speed they are moving, I imagine it 
doesn't take much to crack one of those fragile vanes, so you may never 
find what did it, although it should be trapped in the i/c somewhere...

On 22 Apr 2006 at 8:57, dieseltdi at verizon.net <dieseltdi at verizon.net> wrote:

> Well I haven't removed the intercooler but I can tell you, that  
> except for the pieces of the compressor vanes, nothing in the intake  
> side appears to be missing.  I think what must have happened is that  
> a vane fractured and that cause the catastrophic failure.  hayden
> 
> On Apr 22, 2006, at 5:50 AM, Doyt W. Echelberger wrote:
> 
> >
> >> ........................ this afternoon I pulled the turbo and the  
> >> intake side
> >> compressor vanes look as if something collided with them.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Several  are broken and one is sheared in half (luckily these  
> >> pieces are in
> >> the intercooler not in the engine).
> >
> >
> > .......................is anything else in the intercooler, like a  
> > nut or washer?
> >
> > Doyt
> >
> >
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