Hey guys I have a quick question. I did a little searching but not to much since I am at work. I am getting my manifold back today after getting it machined. I was going to put the turbo on and get stuff rolling with that, then someone told me that I didn't have to bleed oil through the turbo before I fully install it. I thought you have to hook up the oil feed line(back of block) and turn the car on with out the turbo attached to the manifold to let oil drip from the bottom. Then connect the rest of the system. Can some one tell me if I am right or if my friend is right? I appreciate it and again my bad if it is already posted.

Originally posted by xlr82x
Hey guys I have a quick question. I did a little searching but not to much since I am at work. I am getting my manifold back today after getting it machined. I was going to put the turbo on and get stuff rolling with that, then someone told me that I didn't have to bleed oil through the turbo before I fully install it. I thought you have to hook up the oil feed line(back of block) and turn the car on with out the turbo attached to the manifold to let oil drip from the bottom. Then connect the rest of the system. Can some one tell me if I am right or if my friend is right? I appreciate it and again my bad if it is already posted.

Well usually you want oil in the turbo before starting it up. If they are telling you to bleed the turbo, you are just cleaning the insides to flush out any particles inside the bearings. Its not neccessary but its not a bad idea.

Before you start it up for the first time, take off the oil feed line from the turbo and stick it into a jar or something. Remove the connector from the coil pack so the engine won't start and crank it over until you get oil in the jar. If you don't get any oil something is wrong. If you do, hook the feed line it back up to the turbo and crank it over a little more. There should be plenty of oil in there by now and you can hook up the coil pack and start it up.

I had one a friend who tried to fire up a used turbo with out bleeding oil in the line and ran it for like ten min. then took off the filter and the wall by the inlet blade was totally screwed. Then we took off the oil in line and found that there was no oil in there. So I am not sure what happened there, I just don't want to run into that same problem. Can someone tell me why that happened? The only reason I can think of is that there wasn't enough force to push the oil up the line... Am I right?

Originally posted by ner947
Before you start it up for the first time, take off the oil feed line from the turbo and stick it into a jar or something. Remove the connector from the coil pack so the engine won't start and crank it over until you get oil in the jar. If you don't get any oil something is wrong. If you do, hook the feed line it back up to the turbo and crank it over a little more. There should be plenty of oil in there by now and you can hook up the coil pack and start it up.

Ok I have a really big problem.... I just tried to do the above and I didn't get any oil to come out. Can someone offer any suggestions to why this just happened. This is the only thing that is holding me back from starting the car up tonight. Please help.....

Originally posted by xlr82x

Originally posted by ner947 Before you start it up for the first time, take off the oil feed line from the turbo and stick it into a jar or something. Remove the connector from the coil pack so the engine won't start and crank it over until you get oil in the jar. If you don't get any oil something is wrong. If you do, hook the feed line it back up to the turbo and crank it over a little more. There should be plenty of oil in there by now and you can hook up the coil pack and start it up.

Ok I have a really big problem.... I just tried to do the above and I didn't get any oil to come out. Can someone offer any suggestions to why this just happened. This is the only thing that is holding me back from starting the car up tonight. Please help.....

I have never used this method (I just filled my oil feed line with oil before I installed it and did not have a problem), but if you remove the oil feed line and crank the engine, not only would oil not go into the jar that you have, but it should shoot out from where it feeds making a big mess. Unless I am missing something, you would want to keep the feed line on and put the return line in the jar. Again, maybe I am just missing something...

Originally posted by 97eclipse97

Originally posted by xlr82x

Originally posted by ner947 Before you start it up for the first time, take off the oil feed line from the turbo and stick it into a jar or something. Remove the connector from the coil pack so the engine won't start and crank it over until you get oil in the jar. If you don't get any oil something is wrong. If you do, hook the feed line it back up to the turbo and crank it over a little more. There should be plenty of oil in there by now and you can hook up the coil pack and start it up.

Ok I have a really big problem.... I just tried to do the above and I didn't get any oil to come out. Can someone offer any suggestions to why this just happened. This is the only thing that is holding me back from starting the car up tonight. Please help.....

I have never used this method (I just filled my oil feed line with oil before I installed it and did not have a problem), but if you remove the oil feed line and crank the engine, not only would oil not go into the jar that you have, but it should shoot out from where it feeds making a big mess. Unless I am missing something, you would want to keep the feed line on and put the return line in the jar. Again, maybe I am just missing something...

say WHA?

Anyways, Yes make sure you are getting oil from your feed line. 2-3 cranks should shoot about 4-5 fullspoons of oil.

Also Make sure you Inject some into the Turbos bearing themselves, then once its all good connect everything and drive away.

I think he was saying its better to check for oil in the return line instead of the feedline.

My return line was see through so at idle it would just dribble out.

I don't take the line off the turbo whenI do my oil changes. I just pull the relays on the firewall, crank for 5 seconds. Stop and hook up the relays and start the car. :shrug