Turk’s Buildup, One Dream & Endless Nightmares by Turk82

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I got a chance to dig into the new car today. I have to swap over the suspension components from the old car so I began with getting it up in the air to get a good look at what I was working with. As expected it's 77k miles with 20 years of grime on it and has never been touched. I also confirmed that the driver side front upper spring seat is basically nonexistent, dry rotted all the way through, which is causing the sag (not that it matters since I have coilovers for the car).

Crust on top of dirt, on top of spider webs and bodies, on top of more dirt.

Demolished spring seat.

I sprayed all the suspension bolts down with some PB blaster to loosen them up. Then I got to work figuring out what was going on with the driver side windshield wiper. The nut holding it on was brand new and barely tightened. I think the real issue is that the hole in the wiper arm is opened up a little and wont grab anymore. While investigating this I got side tracked and started taking the cowl cover off because I saw an abundance of dirt in it. It looks like a bunch of pieces of acorns in there so something was living in or near the car. It was parked under a tree so this all makes sense.

I get side tracked easily so while I was fiddling with the suspension and the windshield wipers I also stated to track down the oil leak. I knew the oil pan was going to be the ticket. I crawled under the car and confirmed that the oil pan is part of the oil leak. The OEM paper gasket is still present and doing absolutely nothing. I also noticed oil grime on the side of the block on the turbo side. I assumed it was coming from the OMP. So I began to remove some things from the engine bay to be able to access that area of the engine. 

Found some petrified stink bugs hanging out in the battery tray.

I also found this little treat, 

Oil in the intake track. It's both pre-turbo and post turbo which confuses me since I would think bad turbos would only spew oil into the post turbo side of the intake track. Also, the pre-turbo side only showed oil on the primary turbo intake. Next time I get out of the garage I will dig deeper into this issue.