June 22nd, 2008, 09:17 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Champaign, IL
Posts: 1,271
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Originally Posted by GNVYUS 1
You're in for a big surprise, turbo cars always run into some type of inlet leak and bringing it to $80 an hour shops is going to get old.
You should talk to GNRICK, he went to a shop that did the smoke thing like 2 or 3 times I think and personally, it's better to bite the bullet and buy the boost leak tester from BuickGN and then get a compressed air can and do it yourself.
It's $55 and then a compressed air can, cheaper than that shop is going to be and IMO, the smoke machine fails in comparison to 20psi and a loud ass hissing sound you can't miss.
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After doing the smoke test and finding a BIG leak at the turbo bell (rubber plug fell out- go figure) my mechanic turned #4 fuel injector and found the O ring leaking. Smoke test didn't find it. He also sprayed liquid Brake Clean and found a leak at the PCV valve. BLM is now 128 
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