very oily Turbo hoses

Wiskers · Post by **Wiskers** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:22 pm

Ive found a fair bit of oil around the turbo under the passenger seat, its mostly on the hoses and actually seems to be coming form where the rubber hoses connect to the turbo. Ive taken these off cleaned and checked them, they are fine and were tightly connected. Is this normal??

brorabongo · Post by **brorabongo** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:42 pm

Your leak something like this?
http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... =turbo+oil

The photos from the first post have had their locations changed on Photobucket, so here they are again:-

Wiskers · Post by **Wiskers** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:57 pm

exactly like that, but alot more oil, to the point where it was very very slowly dripping off the bottom of the hose.

You now gonna tell me christmas is off next year??

Wiskers · Post by **Wiskers** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:02 pm

are ok, I just read the linked thread, so i guess its not too much to worry about then???, just give it a wipe with a tea towel and bobs your uncle...
it is very sticky and tarry.
a bit like black treacle.....

mmmmmmmmm black treacle

dreamwarrioruk · Post by **dreamwarrioruk** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:38 pm

we had this on ours, i removed the pipes cleaned them up and replaced them back on the bongo.i tightened up the large jubilee clips a bit more and the leaking stopped.

dandywarhol · Post by **dandywarhol** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:01 pm

Turbo deals tend to leak a litlte bit. You also get some oil fumes from the breather pipe running from the camcover to the inlet hose. It's fairly normal on older T. diesels. I took of the intercooler pipes recently and there was a small amount of black oil forming in them too.

Wiskers · Post by **Wiskers** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:26 pm

thanks for the replys..