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Old Mar 24, 2005 | 05:18 PM
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Turbo oil seals blown?

I am pulling the top of my engine apart to change out all the vacume hoses and noticed that there is a crapload of oil in my intake piping. Basically all the piping before the turbos was clean and all after up to the tb were full of oil(to be read as a large amount sitting in bottom of pipes).

So I imediately think that my turbos oil seals are gone
am I right in this assumtion?
and is there any chance that I can just rebuild the oil seals cheaply to get the car back on the road?

any help would be apreciated as this is my only car and a daily driver.
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Old Mar 24, 2005 | 06:59 PM
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any opinions, i need help here!
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Old Mar 24, 2005 | 10:37 PM
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If you search you will find gobs of posts on this. There has been oil in every intake I've seen. A thin coating is not anything I worry about. If your intercooler drips oil when you flip it then thats more serious obviosly.
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Old Mar 24, 2005 | 11:00 PM
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it far worse than that I moped like a 1/4 cup of oil out of the piping alone not even in the intercooler.

wierd thing is that the car boosted fine, idled good and didn't smoke...

both turbos have quite a bit of shaft play too
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