LB7: Possible bad turbo?

[CancerPipe]

Doing head gasket and studs on a truck(relative) and I found the hot side pipe was coated with a sticky black film inside. Not much to find in the intercooler, but it does start just before the compressor housing in the intake horn. Turbo doesn't have any side play and little end play. It doesn't smell like oil or even really have a smell. Just about the whole drivers side of the block is coated with black power steering fluid. Based on where this crap starts and the fact that the intake horn gasket was a soaked mess, do you think it's safe to assume the turbo is fine and this truck had been sucking in power steering fluid?

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[IOWA LLY]

Is there anything on the inlet of the turbo horn? Or the intake tube go into the airbox?

Looks more like a turbo problem to me....

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[CancerPipe]

Nothing in the intake or anywhere else in the horn. It's inside the compressor housing and stops before the intercooler end of the hot side pipe.


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[CaptPhil]

Oil is pretty normal from a turbo, at least in my experience. As long as it isn't like puddles of it.

Inside the turbo horn is odd though.

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[CancerPipe]

Once I get the heads off and to the machine shop I'm going to pull the front cover off the turbo and look a little further.


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