Lets Play Spot The Garrett Ball Bearing In The Peterson Oil Pump Gear.

[r33_racer]

Lesson to be learnt, make sure you run the inline filters pre pump or this can happen.

Or dont blow the turbo! (Stupid plastic carriers)

[Guilt-Toy]

damn! You have had sooo many problems with that car!

I hope it did not result in oil starvation and another blown engine!

[STATUS]

moley moley moley...... SOB.

[2rismo]

Ouch.

Did you only run a post filter for the engine?

[r33_racer]

2rismo...correct. We couldnt fit the pre pump filters in where we ran the lines....was too tight. As a result when the turbo shat out all the ball bearings most of them made it into the tank in the boot except for that one...which killed that gear.

Oil pressure was fine as it was a scavenge that was damaged, not the feed...good thing about the holding tank is the drain plug with its magnetic tip caught all the ball bearings so the feed was still good.

Motors good luckily.

[Beer Baron]

damn that sucks. bit of 2 part epoxy and maybe some scotch tape should see it good as new.

i bet the pump gear for the pump doesn't come cheap but it's a million times cheaper than building the motor again. so thank god the oil tank caught most of them.

[r33_racer]

new gear was $103.00. We were lucky it didnt bend the shaft or stuff the key/keyway. Not bad. I thought it was going to be more exxy to fix.

[shanef]

i bet deep down inside u were hoping it blew the motor, so you could build that 26/30 u've been wanting to do!

[2rismo]

Pic of engine bay? The problem with Peterson filters is they're all so big!

Like these.

Any solution on the horizon?

[r33_racer]

we have fixed it...put some s.s gauze mesh in the actual weld on fittings from the sump side...looks like it will do the same trick...and its better then nothing.

[T04GTR]

f**k. thats not coool at all. very good bit of show and tell but. oh just out of curiosity what sort of vacume were you pulling in the crankcase. (unrelated topic)

[rb26s13]

now that sucks :|