TwinTurbo93

Startin this weekend the vacum and all coolant hoses, and turbo rebuild project.
I ordered most of the things I need for my proj. but I dont seem to find info on taking the turbos out and most importanly the Video on how to reb. the turbos itslef, I guess Turbo City doesn't have them no more.
Where can I find such a tape, maybe some one here on the forum would sell it to me or just let me borow it, I'd pay for the shipping of course.

Any help greatly appreciated.

TwinTurbo93

wow, no one?

Herblenny

iTrader: (13)

I'm not sure about the rebuild part of the turbo.. but taking the turbos out of the car is pretty simple.. You have to take the downpipe off, and 7 nuts holding the turbos on the exhaust manifold.. I think there are 7 studs..

If you studs come off with the nuts, make sure to mark which location it came off of.. Otherwise, you would need to take the nuts off of each studs that come out.. If you don't do it, you might get exhaust leak..

Herblenny

iTrader: (13)

Oh.. you could drain your coolant and oil.. it will be less messy.. also it might be good time to change all that.. make sure to do it before you take the turbo coolant line and oil line..

Rated R1

Don't use turbo city rebuild kits. They are horrible.

TwinTurbo93

Thanks herblenny, Rated R1 why turbo city rebuild kits are horible, cheap quality?

Anyone can tell me where to find a turbo rebuild Video?

forcefed1

my guess is any turbo rebuild video would apply for our cars.

also if you are mechannically inclined, just take it apart and do it yourself.
you shouldn't need a video. the time I have taken a turbo apart. it's real real simple. only about 5-6 parts each turbo.
just pay attention when you take it apart. and put it together the same way

TwinTurbo93

Well, as far as mechanicaly I'm pretty good I would say, but never worked on turbos before that's one of the reasons any turbo rebuild video would be pretty helpfull just to help me better understand where to start from and what should I be aware for down the line.

Herblenny

iTrader: (13)

I've also heard that its pretty simple.. I haven't acturally taken my turbos to be rebuilt.. but I heard not much to it.. Do these kits come with everything balanced?? like turbines and stuff?? I heard thats the hard part.. you need special tool to measure that.. otherwise, you will get play on your turbine and it will blow.. Don;t forget that they spin pretty fast..

TwinTurbo93

Well I think the kit only contains new gaskets and bearings nothing else, that's all you need anyway to keep your turbos healthy so the blades dont start hitting the turbines and get ruined , as far as balancing they allready balanced but you got to make sure to mark thinkgs prier to dissassembly and asemble them back the same way they where, that's what I learned so far.

Rated R1

I could not get my new carbon seals to go in and it looked a lot different than the old ones. Dave Disney put in some turbo city cartridges a couple of years back and they leaked like a seive. At least they refunded his money. I would stay the hell away from turbo city's stuff.

TwinTurbo93

The hell with them, I heard that they are pretty much waste of your money but I'm gonna give it a shot,
and its nothing to them just few C clips and 3 or 4 screws and 1 O ring 1 gasket and some brass thingies, but hey, it's worth trying.