Found it...



Got the car on the lift and looked up at the turbos, the downpipe had coolant running down it and a nice white ash on it, hmm coolant?



ok looking further up, nice green junk, then even further looking,... find that the hard line is not on very well, leaking from that banjo fitting, tighten it up, no more problems! YAY!

 

cool, my turbo 2 did that (it didn't smoke it just lost coolant) and it was a pain to find



mike

 

well the leak has come about again, i'm loosing coolant again and smoking, i guess its rattled free again or something, plus now i have a nice oil leak...



i'm sure that the oil leak is coming from the bottom nipple on the oil filler neck, since, well its not hooked up to anything or plugged and there is oil below that spot... diagnosing this crap is getting easier, but annoying...



anybody plug theirs or did they make themselves a catchcan?

 

made an oil catch can. :bigok:

 

did you replace the crush washers on the turbo?

9954-41-000 (i think)

9954-41-200 (i think)



mike

 

the copper washers that go from the hardlines? replaced them? no.

 

Just bypass the coolant to the turbos!!! to see if that fixes it for sure. And if it works just leave it. I plan on getting rid of the coolant that runs thru the turbos as it is pointless in my eyes.



-Rikki

 

pointless in what aspect? i mean, the coolant lines were engineered by mazda to help cool the turbos when they get hot... right? i mean not giving credit to some of the BS that mazda engineeres F'd up on, but hey, i mean i would think i would need them? if its just the washers, it only takes me 30 min to pull my turbos, my engine bay looks almost exactly like yours ricki, pretty much the same mods and setup... anyways, i'll see, i'm taking it to my rotary mechanic, i'm tired of dealing with it!!!

 

it should work, but now you need to turbo timer the car, and if you have an oil temp gauge you know, that that is not very good. there is almost zero cooling for the oil when you are stopped



mike