Bango bolt filters on turbos

[B4 I was 250T]

Are these worth replacing? Someone told me it's good for turbo life span. If so where can I get them and how hard are they to replace?

[lachlan]

isnt it just a wire gauze ? pull it out and clean it ?

[Andy_Mac]

Been a while since I looked into this issue but do 3rd gens have them/have issues with them?

I know people made a big deal about them killing the journal bearing turbo's that came in most 4th gens, and they do tend to block up quite easily but never hear any of those warnings for 3rd's strangely, different design?

Tried to do mine but there was that much **** in the way around them I spent hours trying, gave up, and had a f you car beer, or was that a box, yea that was probably the whole box.

[Rosssub]

Yip 3rd gens have them too, mine are all sitting on a shelf in the kitchen.

[B4 I was 250T]

Can I have another photo please Ross? More of the oil feed filters? Ok, so now we know the Gen3s have them, is it worth f**king around with them?

[Rosssub]

Guess it really depends on how often the car gets serviced. These filters came out of my EJ208 at 214,000km and haven't been cleaned. You can just see some sludge building up:

IIRC the primary oil feed coming from the front of the left head is tucked in behind the timing/cam gear, so not easy to get to.

Here's Swindogs thread on turbo oil starvation:

http://clubsub.org.nz/forum/showthread.php?1287-Turbo-Oil-Starvation

If you do decide to remove or clean them out, might be worth grabbing some new copper washers. I get mine from hose and hydraulics, but OEM numbers and more info in here:

http://clubsub.org.nz/forum/showthread.php?42557-Banjo-Bolt-Part-Numers

[Marky]

Your car has done 125km, it's not a common fault for them to cause turbo failure in that shape of legacy especially with those sort of kms

My 2c is save your time, effort and $$ for something worthwhile, like replacing the turbos altogether with a bigger better one

[B4 I was 250T]

Ie the single turbo conversion?

[Marky]

Yes

[EJ20T]

Yeah they don't seem to be such a problem on BH/BE. I mean if your in there for some reason pull them, otherwise don't worry. the BL/BP auto VF38 is just a grenade by itself, so give it an excuse and it will go off.