Originally Posted by mechanick
hi there, has anyone had a go at rebuilding their turbo, have a stage 2 turbo on my escort and noticed there is rather a lot of side to side movement in the shaft, the turbo doesnt smoke, how hard is it to change the bearings?, have seen full turbo kits on ebay quite cheap and was wondering!
Not very hard to do really, but it won't be balanced when you put it all back together. You can mark it all up so its the same balance as it was when you took it to pieces though.
Some turbo's have special shaped nut's, not sure if the RST turbo is 1 of them.