Could it be blown?????

Hi All,

Firsty time post on here but great to read all the other issues and problems

I was driving home on Friday on the motorway and had my 2002 Freelander TD4 running at around 90MPH. A very quiet noise like a stuck bearing or similar started, thought it was the radio at first until the noise got louder over the course of around 5 minutes the noise was a full blown bearing squeel, then bang! Lost almost all power with clouds of white or blue smoke out the rear.

Engine still starts and turns over but while idleing it sounds like there is servere metalic rattleing coming from somewhere in the engine.

Got vehicle recovered but from what I can read on here and my limited mechanical knowlegde (I'm in to IT) I think it's my turbo that has blown.

Engine has done over 152000 miles so is there anyway I can confirm that it is my turbo without having to drag it to a dealer and is it worth replacing if it has gone?

Sorry to sound like an idiot but I can fix computers not engines

If anyone has an IT issues, I'd be happy to sort them for you just PM me

Thanks for all your help in advance

Toshlad

Sounds like a knackered turbo.Just checked ebay you could pay up to £900 for a new one.Not sure about the metalic rattle.
Sorry for your troubles.

I would go with turbo too.

Did it sound like a dentist drill??
put your finger on the compressor shaft and see how much free play there is.

In fairness to you juicy, you could beat me with a compressor shaft and I'd never know Where would I find that and roughly what does it look like?

Thanks to all who have commented so far, I get the feeling it is a Turbo. I have found a supplier of genuine replacements and it's around £670, does that sound about right?

The bit with the blades on mate. get ya pinky and try and wiggle the shaft. if it moves loads then oil is getting past the bearings and being burnt in the engine as white smoke.
http://www.tunetimeperformance.com/zen/images/GT-K Turbo.jpg

Burnt oil resulting in white smoke ??

willo said:

Burnt oil resulting in white smoke ??

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I seen a lorry once, must have blown a turbo or something, all you could hear was an engine reving at full speed, and a cloud of white smoke across the dual carriage way. Poor lorry driver just sat in his cabin, could not do anything, engine was running away with itself untill it burnt up all the oil in the intake.

Not really made for ninety.

Mine was always blowin' hoses up hills n such, so i keep her revs down now.

Billy-g said:

Not really made for ninety.

Mine was always blowin' hoses up hills n such, so i keep her revs down now.

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Worth trying a clean out of your induction side & fit silicon hoses maybe.

had a full clean up with egr fit last year, proper gunky too.

Problem is banging home to cornwall with missus, dogs, my boy and full load of "stuff", combined with devonshires undulating terrain along the A30 doing 85/90mph (with my synergy set to stun).

would the silicon hoses hold out better? or would i just start shaggin' the jubilees... that pressure surely has to find the week spot.