What generally happens when a turbo fails.
Does it smoke and use lots of oil?
Does it just affect perfomance?
Are they easy to change?

Any info greatly appreciated.

 

Normally the bearings could wear and seals fail, unless you have a major failure and it is totally mullered. If bearings wear and seals fail you should be burning oil, which is denoted by oil being burnt. Worn bearings should cause end play on the inlet side of the turbo. Not easy to check on the Scoob (because of location), but by taking the inlet pipe off you can check for excessive play on the impellar.

I'm sure other turbo experts will be able to add to this.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Shaun.

 

Thanks Shaun, will check for play on the impellar later

 

Hi
Below is a link to a turbo troubleshoot page!
http://www.turbodriven.com/en/turbof...leshooting.asp
Cheers
Steve

 

Excellent Steve
Cheers

 

How long and how hard is it to actually change the turbo please anyone?

 

when my first one went (killed a few now lol)

it was a good quality, extreme mutilation
hard throttle and then a gearchange = centre spindle seamed to move to one side, probably the bearings going, although i would have expected noisey bearongs before hand? anyway spindle moved to one side, which made the nice spinning blades hit the walls and the whole thing exploded

VF22 by the way

 

bit troublesum the first time as a few of the nuts and bolts will be corroded
ive did that many now, i think the last time i did one it was only 1 hour 45mins start to finnish

the bottom oil return pipe is a biiiaaatch to get back on
add a jubblie clip onto it down the bottom to stop it dropping when you put it all back together, makes it much easier to "force" the oil return pipe from the turbo back on