Rivet oil restrictor
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Ok i searched and read all the articles about oil restrictors and a lot of them have a link I guess about an article Samnavy created about this issue but that link no longer works.
If someone has details as to what i do with the 1/8" rivet to make it an oil restrictor that would be great. The turbo is a china version of the 2870 ran great for the first couple months but now randomly at idle it will start smoking out the tail pipe but when I start driving it stops smoking and on my stock oil pressure gauge I am seeing 65psi+ of oil pressure around idle and sometimes almost 80 under heavy acceleration.
Do I just get the pop rivet and stick it in the turbo as is or what?
If someone has details as to what i do with the 1/8" rivet to make it an oil restrictor that would be great. The turbo is a china version of the 2870 ran great for the first couple months but now randomly at idle it will start smoking out the tail pipe but when I start driving it stops smoking and on my stock oil pressure gauge I am seeing 65psi+ of oil pressure around idle and sometimes almost 80 under heavy acceleration.
Do I just get the pop rivet and stick it in the turbo as is or what?
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