98 V70 AWD Turbo Replacement

[cvtech]

A couple months ago, I posted that I had a coolant leak from what appeared to be coolant feed line to my turbo. Previous to that, my turbo was dumping oil and creating a film on rear windscreen. I have parked the car since then and decided to attack later as this is a secondary car in my fleet. Well, a turbo popped up on local Craigslist and and I am thinking it may be easier and better to replace entire turbo rather than just lines. Can someone help me verify if this setup will work for my Turbo AWD I-5?

I will plan to do a headgasket and valve cover along with replacing heater core hoses. I replaced heater core last spring. Most likely I will also attack some of the vacuum hoses and other breather hoses when I do this job as well.

Thanks
Chris

[jcdillin]

On my AWD I have a straight flange instead of angled, I would check yours to see what you have. If you have a straight flange as well then you are going to have to swap the housings to make it work.

Otherwise I would just check to make sure it doesn't have any play, a little side to side play is ok, but in and out is bad.

Depending on how much they want for that turbo it may be cheaper to rebuild yours, it's not a terrible job and doesn't require anything really special. Other option is pick and pull, I found a low mileage turbo from a T5 at the yard for $60.

[Ozark Lee]

The pictured turbo is correct for a low pressure turbo (2.4 liter) but the high pressure turbo (2.3 liter) typically uses a TD04HL-15G or a TD04HL-15T. The difference between the G and the T is the angle of the flange to the downpipe. The output of the turbo can easily be swapped if the G or the T part is different, in other words you can convert a T to a G and vice-versa so long as the turbo size is the same.

You need to determine whether or not you have a low pressure or a high pressure turbo before you buy the replacement. If you post your VIN we can tell you what you should have.

...Lee