2005 XC90 Blowing white smoke after installing new turbo

[gabrielczyk]

I just installed a new turbo in my 2005 XC90 and after starting it up and letting it run for a few minutes it started spewing white smoke from the exhaust and in the engine compartment around the area where the turbo was installed. I thought it might be burning off oil build up from the bad turbo I replaced so I took it around the block to help it burn but it started blowing out more white smoke. Any ideas out there. Thanks and great site.

[melanie]

My 2004 xc90 is doing the same thing. We just put in a new turbo, and it's billowing smoke. Did you figure out your problem?

[sparmley]

i just rebuilt my turbo and completed the project two days ago. when i cranked it up it must smoking pretty good after about 5 minutes the smoke was so heavy you could not see the neighbors houses. thank god i did it at 2:00 am. after 20 minutes the car was misfiring. after 1 hour the smoke started to decrease. slowly it was smoking less and less after putting in new plugs and a short time later there was hardly any smoke. this morning i cleaned plugs and i have no more smoke. once the car gets real hot it smokes very little. ----so--- it will take timeto burn all that oil out!! i figure by what i had to add, i must have dumped 4 quarts of oil into my exhaust. my xc90 now runs better than ever. be patient it will blow off