Random bits of metal in the sump

So i just popped off the sump to check the bottom end and replace seals and such and I found some brass bits floating around.

Please some one tell me how screwed i am.


Don't be gentle i can take it.

 

Keeping in mind these are the turbos that came off, im hoping thats a turbo part..

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I don't think you want to know what some of those bits look like =O

 

I see the remains of two circlips & a bush almost certain they are from a turbo, the other bits I'm not 100% certain but could be a thrust bearing from a turbo.

Just to throw a curve ball at ya, just because you found those bits in your engines sump it doesn't say with certainty those parts have failed inside your engine.

I had to pull some odd bits n bobs from the oil filler area of a customers van the other day after he topped up the oil & heard a "clunk", looked inside the filler area & found random bits of metal that had come from inside a brand new container of oil!!

 

So i did the old google search on a Turbo seal kit, made me feel alot better.



F.U. Procky for making me think it was worse!

Im guess what i cant find in the sump is still in the passenger turbo.

Back to business...

 

Cheers Mungyz,

I think its a safe bet to say with a turbo in the condition mine was in that its just dropped its guts into the sump. Everything else around the bottom end is in order, the pickup had some grainy bits in it but ill flush it out...

 

How?

It can't just drop it's guts into the sump.

I have no idea how turbo parts got into your sump other then someone left them in there by mistake.

 

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

That passenger turbo is totaled, ill take it apart and i bet itll be missing what was in the sump.

 

Exactly...there is no way those bits are fitting through your turbo oil return hoses.

 

If so you might won't to hang on to those turbos....their teleportation powers could be worth a fortune

 

Don't know what your on about. Look at the top pic, that's a standard lined page.

All those bits swim thru the return hose.

 

OK Looks like your turbo doesn't have teleportation powers after all.

Getting out my spare turbo oil return line kit (unlike the feed line) I see the things are absolutely massive. The oil return line gasket has an inner diameter of 13-14 mm while the return line itself has an inner diameter of about 17mm. See yeah they can swim through.

 

Crazy

I didn't think they could possibly swim through the return lines, plus I thought the opening constricts where the lines return to the sump.

I wonder if small particles have damaged your bearings?