do not insert foreign objects into the hole.

[Wheel House Motorsports]

seriously. its bad for it...

an unfortunate series of bad events happend all at the same time resulting in my turbo injesting a peices of 1" heater hose.. no wonder the thing wouldnt rev or spool up right... but gotta love the mitsu turbo... still almost no shaft play.. got a new wheel in the mail and away I will be going..

 

[INKEDRIDER]

That's good sh**. lol

 

[Givemeaboost]

Did any pieces of the wheel break off and go through your engine ?

Ken..

 

[milehighassassin]

YOU got a new wheel? How are you going to put it in and have it balanced?

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

mitsu parts are all component balanced you can swap the parts out w/o trouble.. if its terribly bad, the whole new turbo is $500.... not a huge deal.

and the small pecies that chipped off ended up in the bottom of my intercooler.. and rx1 motors dont mind a little alum chunks.. its seen much worse.

 

[up-high]

I wnat to hear about this series of events that lead to the turbo eating some heater hose!

 

[PhantomCat]

I wnat to hear about this series of events that lead to the turbo eating some heater hose!

Yes SDI do tell

 

[milehighassassin]

How about mounting them back into the compressor housing.

Sorry just never heard of this as a straight up swap. Usually speciality tools are required with accuracy down to over 1/10000 of an inch.


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[Wheel House Motorsports]

How about mounting them back into the compressor housing.

Sorry just never heard of this as a straight up swap. Usually speciality tools are required with accuracy down to over 1/10000 of an inch.


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its seriously the simplest process on the planet, pop circlip off the comressor housing, remove housing... 13mm 12pt socket to hold the turbine wheel, 6pt 12mm socket on the compressore wheel.. brappp of the impact. its off, repeat in reverse order.. done.

on the 7.3 powerstroke people swap wheels all the time and run for 1000's of miles with nothing but an impact driver to take in and out..... its really not that crazy.


AND>. how it happened. i had taken some 1' hose and slit it to use as a cover/sheild over some coolant lines near the turbo.. well i was in a hurry to put it all back together and go ride.. i have never had issues with them coming off like that,but this one obviously did, and the intake of the turbo is about 10" away under the edge of the seat... the prefilter had finagled its way down about 1" from its base of the metal support. i wacked a bump really hard on the edge of the trail and the sled rattled a little, didnt sound like much(my sled makes a lot of noises all the time).. once i realized something was definately wrong and 0 boost, i took the intake off and there was a round puck ground almost covering the turbo inlet. removed the peices and the turbo spun freeley with almost no shaft play.. just like before.

 

[Fireman35]

that sucks man. hope all goes back as easy as your describing.

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

its all sitting waiting for parts.. other then fighting stupid lines onto the turbo.. only takes probably half an hour to get out to get out and totally dissasemble.. which supprisingly is harder for this project. everything is all baked together so it doesnt want to come apart.

wheel's in the mail, lets hope it gets here soon, i wanna go lay down some boooost.

 

[milehighassassin]

That's cool that it is that easy. On my turbo it requires speciality tools to open and rebuild. No circ clips here.