right the turbo has spat its oil seals.
any suggestions to aid the removal will be greatly recieved.

 

remove the front compressor housing (held on with a ring of bolts from behind), you will then be able to get access to the 4 nuts holding the turbo to the manifold.

 

Dam! i didnt even think of that when i changed mine...took the manifold off instead!

 

still a couple of awkward buggers though,a bent spanner works a treat

 

wait for the engine to cool down




















seriously though they are easy enough, just take your time and don't get rounding any nuts off!!

 

heres a quicky follow up then, i take it the actual seals are a servicable item then.... and the bearing..? if so where can u get them from for a std t34?

 

Stu?
Danny@RADesigns?
Otherwise Turbo Dynamics

 

ill put a post up

 

Yeah i found that too.......

 

another quicky... do u have to remove the turbo to replace the seals and bearings, or can it be donw in situ, just be taking teh downpipe and front cover off..?

 

the benefit of having it on the bench would far outweigh the gain of avoiding taking it off the car..

 

Either way, i do hope you will take pictures and put it into the 'Technical Essays' section....

 

will do indeed, im all set for saturday keep your eyes peeled

 

You need to rebalance it and all that after disassemply. So you can't just raplace seals on the car.

 

but im going to be very carefull to mark up the orientation of all th parts in relation to each other sio that i can reassemble tham in the same way to avoid having to have it rebalanced,


much the same way, if u mark a tyre up where it fits in relations to the valve once its been balaned on the rim, you can remove the tyre and refit it in the same orientation and it is still balanced if u have it checked

the way i'm looking at it thoug, for 45 quid for the kit and a couple hours of my time, i'd much rather try it and see how it goes brfore spending 600 quid on a exchange turbo

2 days until teh write up

 

and counting.........

 

all done,

will post teh pics up later in a tech essay.


bitter sweet though, turbo is done, found my battery drain, fixed the rear arm rest, but she still smokes and misses when she first starts, head is dead gutted

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