photos What's In Your Turbo?

[BamaSixGun]

I thought I would post up some pics of my disassembled turbo.

Thanks to Royboy who posted up THIS LINK that goes into more detail about cleaning/resurfacing parts of the turbo, I will be attempting to do this to mine.

I can only see where it will help to do it now. I was very skeptical of my abilities to first of all remove the turbo from the engine, secondly to take the turbo apart (gotta thank Kevin Richards, my diesel tech for the help) and thirdly to attempt this cleaning stuff.

It has been a very good learning experience for me to see the inner workings of this turbo. I always wondered what it meant to have a variable geometry turbo. After seeing the insides, it makes sense what the "variable" is.

Hope these pics helps others in the future, especially those that are like me and don't know a whole lot about it.

More pics to come after I have the surfaces cleaned even more.

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[Jetpilot1]

Hey Bama - that turbo doesn't look too badly contaminated from rust or soot. I'm not sure of the vgt solenoid - if its just the picture or not, but the O rings look "pinched" near the oil holes, probably just the lighting or something. I've seen turbos in a lot worse condition.

 

[clintusaf]

good stuff bama! would i really need to do this even if i still have a good PSI?

 

[BamaSixGun]

Hey Bama - that turbo doesn't look too badly contaminated from rust or soot. I'm not sure of the vgt solenoid - if its just the picture or not, but the O rings look "pinched" near the oil holes, probably just the lighting or something. I've seen turbos in a lot worse condition.

I agree. It actually looks pretty good. I really didn't know what to expect when I got it out, having never seen the inner workings of one before.

The turbo in the IH article that was rusty & full of carbon build-up, made me feel better about mine.

But any who, while I have it out, it wont hurt to give it a good cleaning, install a new solenoid and O-ring on the housing of the cold side.

 

[BamaSixGun]

Here are a couple of pics of the resurfacing on the internals of the turbo.

 

[kingkevindavid]

looks good Stephen, nice job on the slide show. At least its not as bad as you first thought.

 

[JRJ04]

good stuff bama! would i really need to do this even if i still have a good PSI?

since yours is a 7.3L turbo, you cant do this to it. The design of the 6.0 is completely different and requires cleaning from time to time...just keep on driving yours!

 

[ckamp52]

thats pretty cool bama....it'd be kinda cool to do that i would just be scared i'd screw something up

 

[no-red 6 0]

nice work chief....using my idea of the 'slideshow' eh.......

 

[strokepower]

hey bama, did you just use the emory cloth and the scuf pads to clean it or what... mine is starting to surge pretty bad and im out of warrenty...

and i guess the big question is... did you see a difference after you put it back together??