I’m leaving very shortly to go to Dallas for work, however, I had a chance to get some parts and make some magic happen today.
I went out yesterday and got a new tube and gasket from the Dodge dealer. I still can figure out how I never noticed how warped that flange was. Upon returning home to install it, however, I managed to drop one of the bolts and I simply cannot find it. I went to Pep Boys today and got some replacement bolts so that I could continue.
I cut the hard tube short so that it would fit properly, and I removed the red 5/8″ tube that I was using and replaced it with the blue -10 AN hose. I know that I have some AN push-lock connectors and other stuff around here somewhere, but I’ll be danged if I can find them. Pep Boys thinks that they carry AN fittings, but what they really have is NPT stuff. Which I don’t want.
For now, I put a tiny flare on the end of the tube and roughed it up a bit to try to keep some bite. I put it all back together and started it up and no more oil spewing. There’s still a little drip from the oil pan where the return bung is located, but it’s not a big deal in my opinion.
Long-term, the turbo needs to be rebuilt, and I’ll probably do that this winter. At that time, I will also get the right AN fittings to do the return line “right”, which will also involve dropping the oil pan out and putting an AN bung on it. For the 2010 RallyX season, though, all I need are tires and a little fine tuning of the fuel map.