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When the Turbo went I had only owned the car for 24 hours. In my case, the reason it went was because prior to my purchase, the car sat for 4 years. My thoery is the oil crud, as in, sediment, had deposited and restricted proper cooling. Also the wastegate was not properly adjusted and the car would go into the RED on the boost gauge which made matters worse.
I had an old turbo lying around so that's what I used as a replacement. Before instulation I cleaned the oil lines that pump and drain the oil. Also cleaned the AMM cause that was really dirty. So at first I didn't think about the o2 sensor.
After the instulation of the turbo, the smoke went ALMOST all away but some remained for a Day or Two. Accindently, I turned down the wastegate so my Older turbo now only reaches to 95% mm into the YELLOw and NEVER reaches the RED.
The sign that pointed me to the O2 sensor was improper idle and poor MPG.
The idle was more obvious for my situation, the tech would oscilate a bit which it didn't do before the Turbo failure.
The bad MPG was there but since my speedo (not related to turbo failure) don't work it took me awhile to figure out that my car was drinking gas.When I did figure it out, I didn't try to clean my sensor but simply swapped with the one from a donor car. I assume that you don't have a donor car (don't feel bad, I have one only because I killed my first car after attempting repairs) so buying one is almost the only option.
You can buy a SAAB o2 sensor from:
eeuroparts.com for $99 USD
or a generic one (requires splicing the wires) from oxygensensors.com
or go to a junk yard an get one for 5 bucks. If it don't work you can always get another one. :)
Finally I REALLY incourage you to clean the oil lines (I took mine off and cleaned then ) cause you don't want dirt in a new shiny TURBO. Also people say that cranking the engine (without starting) until the oil pours out of the lines is a good thing to do before screwing the line back into the turbo.
good luck
roman
87 9k t
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