thanks for the advice,. I will be fully removing it to see exactly whats going on. However the only thing that doesnt sit well with me with it being a blown turbo is that the white smoe only happened after oil change. Could it be that changing from a 10w-30 oil to a 10w040 oil made my possible...
good question , il only be able to answer it this weekend when I pull of my turbo. Turbo's are such a b*tch to remove on 7m's....
No...it doesnt smoke on load when warm , only at idle , and as Im slowing down and put it into first gear.
Doesnt smoke at all when cold or at startup.
Il have a...
My plans as it stands are
- do another proper compression test this weekend , make sure pedal is at WOT , make sure im putting the same amount of oil in each cylinder for wet test. Test each cylinder 3 times to get an average psi reading
-do an oil change and drop my 5w-40 fully synthetic and...
Hey guys
So im really worried, I think my fresh rebuild might be over after just 1400km..
Anyway I get white smoke , im definitely not burning coolant , the smoke smells like diesel , im quite sure im burning oil. no i havnt blown my headgasket.
- the white smoke only occurs when the...
Ok so I recent got some help from a friend and had a chance to check everything I could out. I checked the 3000 pipe and not much oil. I pulled of the intercooler piping and started the car ,no oil in the inter-cooler piping and car still billowing white smoke. When i take the breather hose of...
lol wtf ,the 7m's aren't that unreliable and id imagine anyone who has them would of fixed their shortcomings by now , since they know exactly what those shortcomings are! I know I have.
thanks man Ive seen this and its pretty detailed but I meant another one that was floating around. It may or may not be as helpful as your link above but i remember it helped me a lot previously. Its an actual photo of a 7m engine bay taken from different angles with each part labelled.
I have browsed through it when I found it about 3months ago. Ended up reading every thread on there and regularly check for new ones. Real life idiocies are so funny :)
Hey Guys
Ok so I know that a diagram that details and list the various parts of the 7mgte and the names of them is out there somewhere.I've seen it before but cant remember where...
Can anyone point me towards a link?
So I read a thread today that was hilarious and I wondered if there where anymore out there. I'm sure most of you have read this but I just stumbled across it recently
http://www.supramania.com/forums/showthread.php?153835-epic-scammer-caught-lying-thread-on-pirate!
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