This morning I was diving along and kinda got into it a little bit and all of a sudden I heard a loud boom, so I pulled over and I looked and didn't see anything that was obvious, no oil no nothing. So I continued down the road, my truck felt like it had no power and was continously blowing smoke. Once I reached my destination which was 8 miles from where the boom had occurred, I looked more thoroughly and found that I had blown off my passinger side intercooler boot, which had oil dripping from it. My question is, does this happen very often? Did I cause any damage by driving it this way and is there suppose to be oil comming from there?
Thanks,
Chris

 

From what I've experienced... there should only be a loud woosh when a boot is blown... not a loud boom with showing of oil. If there's oil I'd give the turbo a good once over. Oil should go in from the top of the turbo and feed down through to only the oil return on the bottom.

Again, I could stand corrected.

Mike

 

I blew off the boot that exits the intercooler, and it did make a loud boom sound ( was at about 40 psi ). I did not have any oil leaking form it though, that sounds like another problem. There shouldn't be any oil in the intake path.

 

I have blown boots out from under the clamps 3 times now , every time it sounded like someone poked a 4" hole in the side of an air compressor, combined with the noise a hotdog makes when left in the microwave too long...

If the boot is not torn , put it back on ,a nd check all your clamps. Definetly give that turbo a once over , there should be no oil in there.

 

I know from experience that the boot coming of at 55psi is BOOOOMMMM!!

 

ive read putting Hairspray on, then putting the boot on and thightening it helps! kinda sticks together

 

if you run a K&N or other filter that is rechargable with oil then then you may be seeing the oil from your filter & it could be the reason the boot came off to begin with, if so I'd pull it back off & clean the boot & the pipe with brake cleaner or contact cleaner, just something that is fast drying & will get the oily residue off & then reinstall & it should be ok, mine got a little oil seepage from my FIPK under one of the boots & it was a pain in the neck until I got all the film off & it's been good since, may wanna try that, if it's motor oil then you've probably got a seal going in the turbo, but i'd imagine you already knew that!! LOL Dusty