o1dscratch wrote:
linewarbr wrote:
If you end up having to replace the turbo, don't buy a "remanufactured" one. These turbos have incredibly tight tolerances, and are not meant to be taken apart and rebuilt. See if you can budget $2500 for Green Diesel Engineering's turbo kit. If you are replacing, well, you might as well upgrade, right? It would be only 25% more than what you would spend on a stock replacement. Just my
Final quote I got was $1344 for a brand new turbo from Chrysler including labor. Took a quick look into the green diesel turbos and they sound great, but too costly for me right now, and I would definitely need to replace the torque converter at the very least.
Replacing the hoses too for cost, about $200, I know I can get the silicon ones for another ~50, but this makes things easier.
Both hoses were shot to hell. Hot side had almost completely rotted through, and the cold side had the 2" gash.
Also have had the Fumoto Oil Drain valve since the first oil change. That is worth its weight in gold. I'm not leaking oil from anywhere else, drive way has remained clean up until now, and I have never had to add oil to her at anypoint. Running Amsoil oil, and my last oil analysis came back only slightly dirty, but everything else was fine.
What I find funny is that no one can imagine the turbo actually going bad? Yeah, ~73k is pretty young for this, but doo doo happens, and I have never let the turbo cool down before shutting off. Maybe I did it? Maybe it was a defect? I lost count of the number of times I've had to bring it back to the dealer/mechanic. An even dozen back in 2006. Only difference is that now its not under warranty.
It is what it is.
It's not that we don't think your Turbo
could have blown, it's that we don't think your symptoms indicate that your Turbo
has actually blown. Your situation is very familiar to the members of this board - a number of other people have had the exact same problems, the exact same diagnosis, and found that spending $200 on hoses was all that was required. Your spending that anyways, you don't have to throw $1,500 out the window just yet!
As Chester, geordi and others have already attested, this forum has more knowledge of CRDs than your gasser mechanic or nearly any mechanic at a dealership. We work on these engines regularly; many of us own other diesels. The people who are telling you to replace your turbo have such little experience with CRDs (literally, no joke, many have only watched a 30 minute video - back in 2005) its as if I were offering you $1,500 financial advice, because I took economics in high school, when you could get the same advice from someone who works in finance for next to nothing. Who would you go to? In the year that I have been here, I have personally seen dozens of people come through here with all sorts of issues with their CRDs and they have saved, collectively, thousands and thousands of dollars because of the advice of the more knowledgeable folks on this forum. MANY of the "problems" that people have had with the CRD have been solvable for little or no money; not the hundreds or even thousands of dollars that an absolutely clueless dealership is going to charge you for repairing something based on their
best guess.
If both your hoses have ruptured, oil all over the turbo is far from surprising...
I've put forth my case to save you $1,500; It's not my money... I'm done helping.
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