jamescronin said:

Isn't that a blade off the old turbo? (or at least part of a blade) - and by the way there are many places that will refurbish your turbo for you so you don't have to get a new one - will probably be cheaper - this is not something you can do your self if you want it to last as it will need to be balanced up, and have new bearings and oil seals fitted etc.

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raywin said:

That is cruel luck, for you and neglectful of the people who fitted it, just curious but has it been working for 8 months after the turbo was fitted? Seems strange the foreign object hung around in the intake for so long.
I would be tempted to take out the filter box and intake pipe and double check them myself just to be certain.

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Cranium said:

It has been working but steadily making more noise.
Whilst the Turbo is away for repair I have taken the air box apart and cleaned it, renewing jubilee clips as required.
I have renewed the air filter to turbo pipe, turbo oil feed pipe, turbo oil return pipe, and oil breather pipe.
I have performed an oil change and oil filter of course.
The air filter was renewed only a couple of weeks ago...

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Al2O3 said:

That's weird. After taking everything apart you obviously haven't found where the metal came from otherwise you would have said. The damage looks identical in both cases. Maybe the metal was flung back up the intake pipe and stuck in some oil, to become loose again after the recon one was fitted. But where did the metal come from initially? As I say, weird.

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Jam1 said:

What is stray part made from steel, aluminium, other?

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Cranium said:

Not sure, think it is steel...

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mick the builder said:

Have you got a magnet?

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raywin said:

Did you have a new turbo fitted or just the rotor cartridge?

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raywin said:

Well that looks tidy hope this will be the end of this problem

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lynall said:

Have you checked up the breather pipe back to the cyclone oil separator?

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Cranium said:

I've replaced it. But I did blow an air line through the old one, nothing came out.

I also replaced the air box to turbo pipe, although it is large and easy to inspect and clean the old one had slight damage where the jubilee clip held it onto the turbo.

The turbo refirb company recommends that you change the oil feed pipe and as that only left the oil return pipe I decided to change that too.

An oil & filter change is also recommend, so that was done...

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