no oil pressure and stripped threads for oil feed line and drift nirvana

[Justin35ll]

Okay well it's a long story so I'll just sum it up quick. made a terrible decesion to drive my 240 down the west virginia saturday night in the pouring rain from north jersey. Had to have windows open the whole time because exhaust fumes, started shooting 5 foot flames out the exhuast, fixed it in walmart parking lot and drove another 90 miles to our dirty motel.

next day was drift nirvana and it was an awesome event and i had a great time and it was totally worth driving down. At almost the end of the day I spun out and bottomed out my front end.

Me not having an oil pressure gauge I throw it in reverse and rip it 1st, 2nd, 3rd gear til I look down and see the oil light on so I turn the car off imediately and push it the rest of the way.

Waited til about 1230 in the morning for my friend to drive down with a trailer and pick me up. Get back to my house at 6am monday morning.

I pull the pan off after I get some sleep and see a scratched indent of the oil pickups mouth on the inside of the pan so I bang out the pan and put it back on and now I have oil pressure, but at the track I pulled the oil feed line off the block and the threads came out with the bolt.

I somehow ghetto rig it to work so I drive it around the block and the turbo was seized til it broke free and now it whines and has some decent shaft play.

So now I gotta fix the oil line problem and replace the turbo.Whats the best way of doing this. I'm afraid of getting metal shavings inside the oil passages.

[FAST-DATSUN]

We have a repair kit for the turbo oil line....

[Justin35ll]

i orderd a helicoil kit should be here today, i am not looking forward to doing this

Helicoiled it tonight and cant believe how good it came out. Threads are like new it's pretty amazing. now i just need a new turbo


Modified by Justin35ll at 7:16 PM 10/5/2009