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The turbo remanufacturer says the turbo oil feed line must be replaced to validate the 12 month/12000 mile warranty. What a bunch of nonsense! They obviously don't know that replacing the line requires removing the starter motor. That job just isn't any fun, and it's particularly difficult on mine because I have a big round oil pressure sending unit that really gets in the way. Also, the turbo salesman said the line cost 30 bucks or so. WRONG! It's $85.
Anyway, the line had oil in it. Period. No stoppage, no build-ups, no deposits. It doesn't get hot enough to coke. That stupid edict must have been made in the 70's, before water-cooled turbos and widespread use of synthetic oil. Well, I replaced the damn thing, but wouldn't do it again. I think I'd take my chances on the warranty. It's a stupid rule.
The turbo replacement was as complete a disaster as I've had in a while. The rebuilt came with zero hardware. I had to remove all the studs from the old one and put them in the new one. The rebuilt had no means of attachment of the support bracket, so I had to completely split the case of each unit and transfer all the case clamp flanges (because the support bracket attachment is built into the flange plates). The wastegate actuator has to be transferred too. It was quite a bit of work.
So I get the new one in place, and then find that one of the water pipe attachment holes is the wrong size, and it just will not work. So now I have to take it back out, tranfer every damn bit of that stuff back onto the old one, and stick the old one back in!
I think I'm going to have to recommend Eriksson's from now on ... surely they do enough Saab turbos that they would be able to get it right.
I'll write the procedure up eventually. And just think, I'll get a whole 'nuther go-round to take more pics! Just think of this as a training run! Hey Kaplan and Smith, can we sue the bastards?! My emotional distress level is tragically high. Nah, these things will happen. Unfortunately.
BTW, I got the old one to spin again. I couldn't tell if the bearing was coked or if carbon had just built up behind the turbine blade and around the outlet. At any rate, I managed to work on it enough with WD40, and some scraping, that it turns now. It might last the week or two that it takes to get another replacement, but I'll be surprised if it does. I don't even know if it will work yet; still have a small oil leak to correct before I test drive it.
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