Anyone had major issues with 3.6TDV8

the right hand turbo can be replaced easy with the body on, i just removed mine and rebuilt turbo with new core and vct and refitted it, everyone i spoke to told me it cant be done, but it is easy to do on stands, drop the gearbox crossmember and the engine pipe and there is heaps of room then remove rim and plastic inner guard and all the heat sheilds there is about 5 or 6 then its easy as to unbolt turbo and remove it, it was an 8 hour job start to finish with new cooler pipes as well

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Originally Posted by 666spt

the right hand turbo can be replaced easy with the body on, i just removed mine and rebuilt turbo with new core and vct and refitted it, everyone i spoke to told me it cant be done, but it is easy to do on stands, drop the gearbox crossmember and the engine pipe and there is heaps of room then remove rim and plastic inner guard and all the heat sheilds there is about 5 or 6 then its easy as to unbolt turbo and remove it, it was an 8 hour job start to finish with new cooler pipes as well

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Any photos of doing this job?

My 2008 3.6 tdv8 has 290,000 km. It’s a beautiful running motor. No issues at all with the motor. But I have disabled the EGRs, I use fuel treatments and induction treatment, I use engine oil flush treatment and it gets a change every 10,000km. I also clean the MAP sensors about once a year.

I have just had a AC compressor fail which flung a piece into the trans/cooler pipe, rupturing the line resulting in a trans fluid dump. But I’ve never heard of this happening on any motor.

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Originally Posted by rar110

Any photos of doing this job?

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no i don't I did the turbo 3 weeks ago and I only joined this site couple of days ago if I had of known about this site at the time I would of taken pics, but if anyone is after any info on doing this send me a pm and I can talk you through it cheers dean

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Originally Posted by rar110

My 2008 3.6 tdv8 has 290,000 km. It’s a beautiful running motor. No issues at all with the motor. But I have disabled the EGRs, I use fuel treatments and induction treatment, I use engine oil flush treatment and it gets a change every 10,000km. I also clean the MAP sensors about once a year.

I have just had a AC compressor fail which flung a piece into the trans/cooler pipe, rupturing the line resulting in a trans fluid dump. But I’ve never heard of this happening on any motor.

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this type of thing happens from time to time with failing parts ive seen pulleys come loose and take out radiators and punch dents in bonnets, ive seen blower belts take out cold air intakes and radiator hoses, ive had alternator pulleys explode and go through the bonnet, the problem is you cant see the front of the motor so inspecting the belts and pulleys on these vehicles is near impossible, even though you are trying to look after the internals of your engine metal fatigue and parts failure do happen, I would make sure you check your intake pipes for damage as they are moulded around the ac pulley and the last thing you need is a hole in the intake pipe as itll get dirt and dust into the turbo and cause a turbo failure cheers dean

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Originally Posted by rar110

My 2008 3.6 tdv8 has 290,000 km. It’s a beautiful running motor. No issues at all with the motor. But I have disabled the EGRs, I use fuel treatments and induction treatment, I use engine oil flush treatment and it gets a change every 10,000km. I also clean the MAP sensors about once a year. .

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Can you tell me more about the fuel treatment and induction treatment please?

I'm considering EGR disablement - I've been quoted about $1k as part of a remap - is this what you had done?

I used emulators successfully to disable the EGRs. I should check on the intake manifolds now these have been fitted for 3 years. Remap is another option. Eg using the Bell Auto Services BAS with Iid Tool.

I’ve used Revive induction treatment a couple of times, once was probably enough. The 1st treatment made a noticeable improvement to engine smoothness. Not that the motor was running rough.

I use CEM & LiquiMoly engine flush. This results in engine oil staying much cleaner for longer. Some hypothesise blocked turbo oil feed/drain is a reason or contributes to failure. Less oil sediments makes sense to me.

I use CEM, Motul, RL2 fuel treatments. But I can’t point to any noticeable improvements. But I’m happy to keep using them.