Dismantle A Turbo

[Joshren]

Hi, has anyone ever taken a turbo apart on here and if so is there a written procedure. I have taken mine down a fair way, the exhuast housing is off and the shaft is out, I need to get to the bearing, it looks like I have to remove the aly turbine housing off which appears to be held on with a large circlip, just need a proceedure if available please.

[TURBO4LT]

Make sure you are really carefull its really easy to bend the shaft when undoing the compressor wheel nut and also they are balanced and need to be very accuratley maked and reasembled if you want them to last. Search google for insturctions but be sure you know what your doing, as far as I know you can get just the bearings as replacemnt anyway.

[Ricky N]

I don’t normally discourage people from having a crack at things but if you have no experience with turbos a ball bearing Garrett turbo is an expensive can of worms.

You will need big set of circlip pliers to get the compressor ring off.

Once the compressor wheel and turbine are off you will need to undo the little alan keys. Use an impact driver or they will probably round. You will need to custom make a slide hammer tool to get the bearing pack pin out.

Even if you get this far and get the rest of the turbo apart. You cannot rebuild it on your own. Unlike a T04 or T03 that can be balanced as a rotating assembly then pulled apart and assembled on the index marks. Garrett ball bearing turbos can only be VSR balanced.

Unfortunately no matter what, you are going to have to send it away if you want it rebuilt.

Sorry,

Cheers,

Ricky.