Date:         Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:47:45 +0200
Reply-To:     "P. Fjeldstad" <pfjeldst@ONLINE.NO>
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From:         "P. Fjeldstad" <pfjeldst@ONLINE.NO>
Subject:      Re: VW Caravelle C, Turbo Diesel... info on turbo....
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com
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No, I don`t hear any "whistling" at all.
I always heard it before. This is
the reason why I first became suspicious.
Together with the fact that my car is
struggeling much harder uphill.

Piddi


Gary Stearns wrote:
>
> Can you hear the turbo "whistling", or have you had boost pressure checked?
>
> When the original engine "interfered", was it bad enough to break any valve
> pieces loose to then travel into the spinning turbo?  It wouldn't take much
> to fracture the impeller blades and render the turbo out-of-balance or
> frozen.
>
> Gary
>
> >> I have got a \26488 VW Caravelle Turbo diesel (European).
> >> Last fall I had a timing belt failure, and had to change
> >> engine ("everything" was broken..).
> >:
> >> I have a feeling that the turbo isn`t working.
> >> The turbo was moved over from my old engine by
> >> the workshop that switched the motors for me.
> >
> >