turbos woohoo

[birdsfoot]

ok i broke a bolt off inside my turbo....dont ask.....anyway all the insids are all good. i have 2 blow turbos. how hard would it be just to swap the internals and blades onto the old blow one? ive already atempted to remove the bolt with an extrator kit and it didnt work and i dont want to take it to the shop and pay when i can possible just do this swap.

[talon guy]

vfaq is yur friend..look how to rebuild it and i think u will get the idea on how to swap stuf

[Mike C]

Did you break one of the bolts off between the manifold and turbo? If so, drill the bolt out and buy an E-Z out set at Sears. Takes about 15 min.

[birdsfoot]

oil return bolt....already drilled it out and and ez out set wont work :rolleyes

[EvolvedDSM]

So, you're just wanting to swap exhaust housings?

[birdsfoot]

yes just the housing. the one where all the oil line go into. dont know that exact name of it :p

[EvolvedDSM]

Oops, I read that all wrong. You're wanting to take the center cartridge apart (#6)?

[koritina]

He's got a bunch of parts. He wants to take the good blades, in the car now, and put them in a cartridge that doesn't have a bolt stuck in it, and put the good housings (intake and exhaust) on that. Hence having the good blades, in the good cartridge, in the good housings. If that makes sense.

[JayC]

You can do it. The problem is, if you take the center shaft apart You will have to get it rebalanced when you put it back together. Here is what I did though. Mark the compressor wheel, nut, and shaft with a line of paint. This way you know how it needs to be when it goes back together. You must torque the nut down correct though. If that nut comes off it will eat your compressor wheel.

[Stanislav94]

That happened on mine once. I took it all apart and put it back together, then abiously didn't torque the nut right or it was out of balance or both and the nut came off and was bounching around in the inlet of the turbo. The nut was very shiny and in perfect shape but the blades where half gone, so that was not so good for making boost. So if you gonna do it make sure you do it right.

[birdsfoot]

lol thats what happened to my last turbo

http://www.columbusdsm.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3767

can i send it somewhere and they can balance it?

or do you think it woudl jsut be easier and or cheaper to take the turbo with the broken bolts to a machine shop and have them get them out????

[Mike C]

Why won't the EZ out work?

[Iwishiwascool]

if you cant get it out a shop certainly can.

It would be foolish to scrap the whole turbo just because of a broken banjo bolt. Its not all that uncommon.

[Mike C]

Its actually just the little return bolts. They shouldn't be hard to get out. Did you spray them out with PB Blaster before trying the EZ out?

[birdsfoot]

im gona try some more....wish me luck