Yes I took the exhaust elbow off. I thoroughly inspected it before I sent it to him. If you read matts earlier it made a loud pop which was more than likely the shaft snapping due to someone who obviuosly didn't know what he was doing just turning the rod in and out trying to acheive more boost which it did produce. HOW DID IT PRODUCE ANY BOOST AT ALL IF IT WAS SNAPPED.(SIMPLE ANSWER IT WOULDN'T HAVE) Read your own posts matt you said it wasn't smoking. There was no oil in the exhaust side or snail end and there was no movement in that shaft both in and out and up and down was very very minimal. Now a turbo's bearing is not a bearing as such but a floating brass bush which as everyone knows does not rust unless you got some kind of brass that I have never heard of. Stuart you said you fitted another turbo for him and matt said he used his brothers where is the truth in this was it your turbo or his brothers. I bet you fitted this turbo and know slightly more about how they work than matt which obviously didn't know much when it came to preloading the actuator and I reckon it has been overboosted resulting in the shaft snapping.Again read matts posts 'it was boosting then a loud pop and lots of blue smoke' that was when the shaft snapped. Even the priming of the turbo he got wrong. He only primed it until his oil pressure light went out which is nowhere near long enough. The proper way to prime it is disconnect coil or fuel pump fuse with the oil feed not yet connected and turn engine over until the oil starts weeping through. then connect the feed. Continue cranking for a further min or so and that would be sufficent.This is what I think has happenedMatt did not prime the turbo properly went out in it without the wastegate not set properly floored it trying to get boost when the wastegate was open not closed causing the turbo to overboost and stress the shaft. Then he came back adjusted the rod trying to get more boost done exactly the same again and floored it overboostin it again and snapping the shaft. Now I am not dull the turbo would not have produced any boost at all if the shaft was snapped yet alone 8psi and now he is trying to shift blame. I am engineer mate and for a shaft to snap to at only 8psi is bull