Thanks so much for the help.

Skills: I am a hobbyist, not a mechanic. I can turn a wrench and do maintenance. No lift available, so a garage floor is the limit of my access.
Location: I am in York PA.
Why I think the turbo is bad: I believe the turbo is bad, honestly, because the mechanic at the dealer said so. There is a bit of noise, beyond the nice turbo spool-up sound, that I hear with the window open on the passenger side. I have not pulled the hose off to look in it yet myself.

Honestly, once the vacuum was fixed, MAP sensor was cleaned, and I did a little an Italian tune-up, my smoking issue all but disappeared. I have replaced boost hoses with SAMCO per the recommendations on this site as well. I will try and look at the turbo this week, based on your recommendations. I also have on order a new fuel filter as the glow plug sensor comes on intermittently and I was told by the dealer this can indicate there is water in the filter.

I do have an appointment to have another non-dealer shop look at it this week. Will see what they say.

One last question to the group - When my rear main crank seal was replaced, they mentioned the crank may be out of speck in terms of play. Apparently the repair kit has a shim that corrects for this, but it has concerned me since they mentioned it. (As you can see, I do not have a lot of confidence in my local dealers.) Would appreciate anyone with knowledge regarding this commenting.

Really appreciate all your thoughts and comments. I am in a bit over my head. Thanks for the assist.

Matt

Some oil is normal around the turbo as the CCV vents into the intake of the turbo (see elephant hose mod or provent). Even with the CCV rerouted some oil is normal to get that slips past the turbo seals.

That said its hard to day how much oil is normal for you. What makes you think the turbo is bad?

If you remove the inlet air accordion tube you can see and feel the compressor wheel, if there is massive slop side to side, or chewed up metal, then its a bad turbo, if there is just a little side to side play, then its likely normal.


I bought a CRD a couple of years ago with a failed turbo, massive amounts of oil dumped into the exhaust making a huge smoke cloud when it got even a little warm(cat heating up). I think the shop also quoted 7K to repair, which included other items like a new exhaust manifold and intercooler, which I feel are unnecessary.

I bought this turbo for the jeep:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K0 ... UTF8&psc=1

And installed it myself, overall I think it would be able 2-3-4 hours of work depending on your skill level. For me the worst part of it was the oil that entered the exhuast, it makes a MASSIVE thick cloud before it finishes burning off. I even removed the exhaust and let it drain out and rinsed it with gas, and got more out, but still made a huge cloud of smoke, I waiting untill nighttime and headed right for the country road with a totally cool engine, and kept the engine shutoff at lights, so I could keep it cool untill I was out of town.

Depending on how it blew out you might need to pull the intercooler to drain it of oil.

There are other turbo options, someone around here is offering a rebuilt upgraded turbo, and Sasquatch offers a new upgraded turbo as well, both are cost effective compared to OEM.

for what its worth I would likely skip the Stigan, its cost effective, and the quality seems fine overall, however I had an issue with the vacuum actuator sticking on it, and I think some others had issue with the adjustment of the vacuum actuator on it.