help! gt30r leaking oil

[da8o8santaclauz]

recently started up a rebuilt motor with a topmount gt30r turbo and it seems to be leaking. found oil around turbo/inside charge pipe. i've heard that kinked or blocked oil drains could cause this. would a 90* fitting off the turbo cause this too? line is not kinked but i have a 90 deg fitting coming off the turbo for the drain.

any help would be greeatly appreciated. thanks!

[fliprayzin240sx]

Could be, supposed to make the drain lines to be near straight as possible.

[da8o8santaclauz]

wow so even that minor of a bend could back it up like this?

[bb4_96]

Think of the viscosity of oil... then take out that 90. Then rinse and repaeat. Then inspect your turbo. If its in you charge pipe you may have a problem with seals in your chra? Is it a ball bearing turbo? I'm not fluent enough on turbos to advise any further than that but plenty of people on here are.

[ross.cottrill]

almost positive that your not supposed to have anything greater than a 45 on a oil drain and cant be more than 15 degress off center as this will cause "puddling)..

[240sux:(]

yeah i had this happen on my other turbo. i was runnin a wierd angle on my drain tube and the same thing happened. my seals started leakin on both sides and i was burnin oil. ive rebuilt the turbo now, and ive got a 45* fitting on it and it works awsome. so basically like they said you gotta keep it as free flowin as possible.

also is the gt30r a ball bearing? im runnin a 2860 rs and im usin a restrictor cause i was told that the chra cant handle much over 40 psi before the seals start leakin, so you gotta run a restrictor. i dunno if that matters or not but im runnin the .35 on mine. and ive been driftin on it for about a year now, runs great.

[GSXRJJordan]

Yeah the drain doesn't see pressure, but it sees quite a bit of volume, that 90* fitting could be causing trouble especially if your oil feed is at directly 12 o'clock. I'd recommend changing the drain setup, or if that's not possible going to a 45* or clocking the CHRA so there's less of an angle.

[da8o8santaclauz]

k i'll swap the fitting to a 45* and hopefully that solves the problem. i already have a restrictor on the turbo as well so that shouldnt be the case. thanks guys!
hopefully i wont have to rebuild this turbo before even running it

[rps13dn]

if u dont have the oil restrictor on the oil feed on top of the turbo its gona flood the turbo with oil, we sell them here go to xo2racing.com