new turbo, how to start

[sam]

ok so my new turbo should arrive tomorrow thanks vince and robyn ;D

have worked with a couple of turbos in fuel injected cars and for them we took spark away and cranked over the engine until oil started coming out of the feed, to get oil to the turbo for initial starting, seeing as its diesel im stumped for an idea. do i actually need to do this? or can i just pour a small amount directly into the turbo then put feed on and start, just to protect it initially

thanks in advance

[geeves]

Disconecting the wire from the fuel cut off solinoid would have the same effect as no spark.

[sam]

ah ok, didnt want to tinker with the diesel fuel system as i know nothing about it

will do this thanks geeves

[Bruce]

We just took the old one off out the new one on and started it up. I would not leave off the oil line to check for oil as you will have a big mess to clean up, but I suppose you could put them in a container and make sure its getting thru.

Cheers Bruce.

[sam]

yeah, we used milk bottle

anyways after much swearing and abuse at a couple of bolts I got it started and it runs mint!!!
had smoke for about 10km of driving from oil leaking from last turbo but now its good

[vinceandrobyn]

Cool as!!!! I'm glad it's working for you, like I said we hadn't tested it, but it looked all good to me. I thought it would be fine, but relieved all the same.

[sam]

had a minor setback today

few drips of oil coming out of return, gona take turbo off, make new gasket for it and put it back together, probably shouldve done that in first place as i dont think it has one and just used gasket goo, thatll teach me..

yeah nah turbo is all good