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My "new" 99 9-5, what do you think??
Posted by Dano [Email] (more from Dano) on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:55:36
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Just picked up a 99 4cyl with 125K that a friend was selling... it had the 08 code and a cabin fan that was not working. She was quoted $1500 for the fix... and of course by spending some time on-line I find the current fix for all of that. Ordered the blend door parts and the new fan and while waiting for those parts, my wife had an episode of white smoke at start up one day. Her drive home was short, I looked at it later and no big smoke at all... next day, same thing,smoke. Well, pulled it into the garage that night and began to take a look. A day later, smoke at start-up..quite a bit... got it up to temp at idle, still smokin. While running I checked the coolant with a "block tester" to check for combustion gases... negative result. Coolant drained out "clean" and the oil which had just been changed looked OK. So..pulled the turbo and it was bad. Ready to put a rebuild in... changed the PCV to #6... and just dropped the pan to check for sludge. It was in great shape! No blockage at all!
Do you think the problem was only the turbo?? or can I expect to have to pull the head for a gasket? Would that much coolant leak thru the turbo? I have read about retourqing the head without a gasket change?? What do you think??
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