My turbo let loose last night when I was leaving to go to school. Tons of smoke and sounds like somebody threw a pocketfull of change in the motor. The only good from this is that it happened at home, not a hundred miles north at school. Came at a bad time, money is tight. If you or anyone you know has a spare hx35 that you need to get rid of cheap, let me know. Just needed to vent and complain a little.

John

 

What is cheap and what is your location?

 

cheap is 150 or so and I am in Ohio.

 

Man I feel ya, my tranny just went kapute right after I spend almost all my money on the truck... Luckly someone owed me some money and paid up, I hope it all works out for you!!

 

so did metal pieces make it's way into the motor? If so, u wont just need a turbo.

 

I'm hoping that they didn't. Being at school all week, I won't have a chance to see the truck again until late Friday night or more likely Saturday afternoon after work. When idleing, the truck sounded fine, but I plan on pulling the intercooler and cleaning it out.

 

Look on e-bay, I seen one cheep the other day... I look for you and see if I can find it. I'll post the link if I do...

Edit... There are a few on there, press your luck. I typed in 'dodge cummins turbo', found a few used ones. HTH...

 

we use to have 3 or 4 extras between me and my buddys but thay didnt last long before they kept blowin them up i was the unlucky one my tranny gave out before the turbo when summer was over and had no money

 

Which FI turbo was it that let go? How long have you had it?

 

I found one here close to home, $150. It should get me by for a while until I can afford something a little better.

 

Got the truck back together today. Other than buring the rest of the oil out the exhaust, it runs pretty good. Still, when I get on the throttle real hard it blows a ton of gray smoke instead of black like it used to be. Hoping that might go away.

 

lucky it didnt run away on ya