TD Turbo

jcdel · Post by **jcdel** » 07 Jul 2007, 09:32

Simple question this one(I hope).My turbo has blown big style-tons of smoke/revs and oil everywhere.Does the XUD engine usually survive.
Thanks again for replies past and present.

jeremy · Post by **jeremy** » 07 Jul 2007, 10:05

I think you'll find its a virtually unknown occurrence!

I suppose the risk is that some metal has got into the combustion chamber and done some damage.

In reality I'd have thought that the impeller was unlikely to have shattered - and even if it did - the intercooler would be an efficient filter.

Diesels are largely unaffected by combustion chamber crud - so its probably OK.

Its worth paying careful attention to the oil feed to the turbo - as something has made it fail.

The reliability makes the finding of a replacement easier and cheaper.

Stewart(oily) · Post by **Stewart(oily)** » 07 Jul 2007, 10:14

I have a spare Garrett from a TZD, just needs the actuator replacing due to the air pipe spigot being snapped off.
Stewart

Xaccers · Post by **Xaccers** » 07 Jul 2007, 10:15

I think someone on here had a turbo for sale recently.

Free actually:
dead-link frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22219

jcdel · Post by **jcdel** » 07 Jul 2007, 10:26

Thanks Guys:The forum makes it worthwhile having a Xantia although this one (96' TD Estate) is testing me.Still luv' em tho'.

caveman_si · Post by **caveman_si** » 11 Jul 2007, 18:11

Yes they survive as long as the intercooler caught most of the oil and the bits that broke off.

Happend to me a while ago. I drained 2 litres of oil from the intercooler.
I checked that the cylinders were ok by releasing the glowplugs and hand cranking to make sure nothing was in the cylinders and i got all the oil out.

Good luck fixing it.