Turbo rebuild! - I think i broke a piston ring, what now? :-(

[Konstantin Bogach]

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It is me whom Gerard send the kit, thaks to you again, Gerard.  It was my first turbo rebuild.
Things to whatch for:
- use correct torque on nut on the shaft (don't remember # but search archives for "kbogach turbo rebuld")
  I got wrong torque from a document from official turbo place - snapped the shaft. I was lucky to have spare turbo from junk yard.
- nut on rear housing are evry hard to get off and everyone I talked to snapped at least one stud.  It it snappes below surface - BIG PITA.
  I don't know how to remove such piece.

Every thing else is more or less straightforward.  But  I did it in basement on desk with big vise.   Gerard, do you have vise in your bathroom? :-)
By the way,  I have perception that there are various models of K26 turbos out there - the kit
I got from Gerard has bigger nut.  I was not a problem as I reused old one.
I sent shaft to Turbo United in NH for balancing but just because I forgot to mark position of the nut and propeller wheel relative to each other and rear wheel (or to the whole
shaft, one can say).

Good luck,
Konstantin

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> From: Gerard <gerard at poboxes.com>

>
> > There is this up on e-bay right now:
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2409212971&category=6770
> > Dunno, if it is a close enough match for the turbo, but it'd be an
> > el-cheapo way out of this here sitiation/
>
> I might be able to help here. When I rebuilt my turbo I bought the kit
> for around $50-$60. Don't know quite how it will work out given the
> exchange rate, but I'll be willing to find out what the going price is
> right now.
>
> I'm in South Africa and I think I sent a K26 repair kit to the USA maybe
> 18 months ago and it was around $5 to ship.
>
> Let me know the numbers on the K26 and I can ask the local repair shop
> if they have a kit for it and what it costs.
>
> I rebuilt my turbo on the bathroom floor. :) Just had the internal
> components balanced before assembly, but it was quite straight forward.
> Saved another $70 on assembly costs. A new turbine shaft was around $120
> at the time, so that was the killer bit.
>
> Anyway, let me know if you are interested and I will do some homework
> inbetween hunting for a new job.
>
> G.
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