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Yep moral of the story don't fixate on what your think it is. The new ram air hood looks cool but it now the most expensive hood in custom car history. Also just want to mention @GooseTuned is my tuner and he is amazing. We had several great conversations about the tune and possible issues...

UPDATE!! its alive and runs like mad. The truck absolutely rips. What we found out was an air flow issue. the new hood that was installed has a cross brace in the front for support. That brace has about 1/4" to 1/2" of clearance in front of the snorkel from the air box and about a quarter of...

just incase anyone wants to see the paper weight.

*** UPDATE *** The truck is back in my position. Ford went through the truck again. They went through all oil passages, the oil filer housing and attached oil cooler, checked or replaced all the external oil feed lines and found no blockage. We did get an external oil pressure gauge connected...

Now I get it. The passenger side compressor wheel is shredded also. My thought was that when the turbo let go and the pressure dropped it sucked shrapnel over to the driver side as i left my foot off the pedal and that wheel would have still been spinning. So it would have nicked it. The...

@New recaros Not sure i flow the question. Air path of turbine doesn't mix with the air intake box. I'm confused lol Im also blonde and male according to my wife soooo there that.

Good morning all! I strongly believe that the driver side compressor wheel nicks is from shrapnel due to the failure of the passenger side turbo. We've found shrapnel all the way up to the air filter. Yes the down pipe to the cat on the passenger side had shrapnel also however none present on...

That was a lot to read definitely good information. The snorkel definitely looks like the GEN 2. i would think that both turbos would show the same or similar damage. I could see the driver side being less damage as the air path is so much shorter but heh hot side is so much longer so it may...

LOL yep!

@Ellison3 Yes they've been replaced. After the first and second failures they been replaced also. The thought is a by pass of some sort is open. The turbo is getting oil just not enough. Ill have presure readings at the turbos once we get it all back together.

Had time today to tear down the driver side turbo for comparison. Big differences. The shaft on the failed turbo has the black rings like its burnt and the working turbo doesn't have the discoloration. Also to be noted the working turbo shaft is much smother the the failed turbo shaft however...

@New recaros I will definitely have a look at that.

@New recaros Thanks for your input. Im going to a turbo shop next week to have the look it over and give me their insight on things. Still haven't heard any from Garrett Tech support.

@New recaros here's the best picture I could find of a rebuild kit for a PowerMax turbo. Looks like it's a machined step down. Very abruptly. this would explain the need for the second smaller bearing

@New recaros notice that right away. It's all so dark I thought maybe it cam that way. I haven't taken the driver side apart yet to compare. We do have a the bigger XDI fuel pump and went to 1050 CC fuel injectors. We needed more fuel but its possible were not getting enough or an injector is...

@Cole12582 I'm glad to hear you had good luck with them. i really don't think its there fault. I think something is causing this failure that external of the turbo.

@New recaros can you explain the thrust washer is purple. Im not up to parr with all the pieces in this turbo. Is the thrust washer the dark black purple spot right before the turbine? Yes we have talked about over spin. I've been told that if over spin is what cased the shaft to split that the...

Here is more of the insides

Got the failed turbo today and tore it apart. Pictures below. looks to me like the shaft burnt up at this second small bearing. Journal bearing has spiral scaring i would think for the shaft spinning out of it. Looks like the shaft is burnt up where it stepped down to a smaller shaft sized and...

@dsiggi I wish and pray it's something simple that we've over looked. My last bill with ford was over 5k for 11 miles of fun. If it winds up being something simple it'll make a good camp fire story over beers. lol

@smurfslayer good point. When we removed the charge pipes this time we had shrapnel in the AMS down pipes on both passenger and driver sides. Even found it in the air filter. I could see if shrapnel from the passenger side failure got that far that it would damage the driver side compressor...

@TwizzleStix, yes I've thought it was an oil issue the hole time. Some have said it was too much oil pressure and others feel it's starved. I had ford go through both oil and coolant systems before the latest failure and gave both a clean bill of health. Im now getting custom lines made so we...

Overachiever haha. it's a problem I have will my truck addiction. We have done a boost leak down check and found no leaks. The data logs do not show over spooling/spinning. if thats what you mean by unmetered air. The shaft and turbine pictures are of the passenger side that came apart...

Hello all. Ive searched high and low for what can be wrong with the turbo system. Been through forums, google, ford and on the phone with manufactures. This my be lengthy but i'll do my best to keep it short. My truck sat for a little over a year while we built out the suspension. Before it...

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