can anyone tell me. if i was to take my turbo exhaust housing off would the turbo need to be re ballanced or can i just bolt the housing back on and refit the trubo. god i hate cars.
all i wanted to do was put a new exhaust manifold gasket on and refit a stud and a small object fell into the manifold and dropped down into the turbo. so anoying.

 

it'll be fine - won't need re-balancing

 

As above it'll be fine - HOWEVER that can be a PROPER cunt of a job!

One turbo i did i had to grind 4 of the bolt heads off because they were seized solid and then rounded off.

And even then i had to SMASH the housing off with a lump hammer........and if it doesn't come off square theres a chance you might damage the fins on the turbine.

If it comes off easy then its a straight forward job though

 

You should be a precision engineer mate with your lump hammer. Have you ever thought of making watches?

 

What else can you do if its seized on there

Thats what hammers are made for! i did have pictures of it all but cheap DVD-R's mean they are no more

 

Yee haw cowboy!

 

so how else would you remove a housing if its seized on.

Can't wait to hear this one

 

I have got them off in the past by heating the nuts up and getting a good fitting 6 sided socket.

 

i mean the housing not the bolts.

And you can't get a socket in on the exhuast housing bolts or at least not all of them