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Old 01-20-2004, 01:07 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by jtt220
My sr20det is burning oil at a rate of 1 quart every other tank of gas. I am fairly inexperienced with forced induction engines but i know i could be loseing this oil at the turbo. How do I diagnois if the turbo is the oil burning culprit? Is their any tell-tale sign of a blown turbo? Thanks in advance for the help.....
You will have lots of smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe.

When does it happen? Idle? On boost? Near redline? When cold? When hot?

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