How a Turbocharger Works - And What Kills Them
I admit I do not know anything about turbochargers, boost from them, and how to diagnose if something goes wrong. Never owned one, drove one or worked on a car with one. Until now.
So. My daughter owns a 2015 ford escape with the 2.0L ecoboost engine.
Yesterday she had some whitish bluish smoke from the tailpipe and maybe running a little rough. Internet surfing indicates that can sometimes happen with turbos. At first I thought head gasket, but now I am leaning to something else.
One of her coworkers found a broken vacuum hose. Didn't have any tubing so they tried to tape it up. Didn't work of course.
I looked at it with my grandsons, they put a new piece of hose on it. That car uses a vacuum pump as a vacuum source, doesn't come from the intake manifold.
She drove it and for now it is driving normally. She said it drives better than it has in a long time.
So I am doing a learning regimen about this car and found the info linked above and thought I would share.
I paid for a subscription to alldatadiy for this car. It is very hard to find what I am looking for.
Do you guys know of a better online data service I can use??
