[Diy_efi] some pictures...

[Ian Molton]

The AirHawk wrote:

> Yes. The turbine is Inconel or some other hard-as-hell metal that was 
> friction-welded to the shaft. Don't attempt to remove it, and do what 
> you can to NOT flex any of the blades. One chip, and you might as well 
> toss it to the scrapper.

the blades are all true-looking. the very tips at the widest part have 
some /very/ tiny chips (fraction of a millimeter sized). Should I worry?

> As someone pointed out - remove the bronze sleeve, then a bit of 
> judicious grinding on that bearing race will cause it  to come apart. 
> Don't worry about damaging the race, it's trash.

Will try that.

>> What 'kind' of turbo is this anyway? I thought they were either ball 
>> bearing or floating sleeve - this is both?
> 
> I don't know - exactly what *is* the turbo? Garrett? Mitsu? Hybrid?

'AISIN'. Im told the turbo was application specific for the CL-61 engine 
*only*.

> Clean, clean, clean. That is the word of the day, should you decide to 
> attempt your own re-man.

I've heard a lot of what I think is probably snake-oil from turbo recon 
people who tend to claim the whole thing needs special balancing.

It seems to me that the balancing has been done by grinding the inner 
face of the ehaust turbine and the outer 'nub' on the end of the shaft - 
neither of which is adjustable in any real sense, so my thought is that 
the shaft/turbines are balanced and pretty much anything else is just 
careful assembly.

bfn!