so im working on rebuilding this turbo and i havnt got far before encountering some problems.
so far i have the compressor off and the hot side too. but i cant take the nut off the shaft!
i keep seeing all these rebuild treads on other sites saying it screws backwards. but i keep trying and this thing is reallly on there!!!
not to mention the hot side has a the bolt half rounded off. its so hard to get a grip on this thing. any suggestions? btw i got the rebuild kit free so i figured id give it a go if all else fails ill pay for some one to do this but i wanted the learning experience. any help would be awsome.

 

What brand turbo, model, and specs?

 

It's turbonetics 50 trim. These things r a pain in the but to find ou the specs!!!!!! I'm waiting on turbonetics to email me all the details on it they had to check by serial number the website doesn't let u search that!!! Stupid website lay out!!!!

 

Every turbo ive ever worked with, the compressor nut is left hand thread - so make sure you're turning clockwise to loosen instead of counter-clockwise. Also its normal for the turbine side "bolt" to be rounded - this is how the turbo is balanced.

 

Also after completing your rebuild I highly recommend taking the assembled CHRA with compressor wheel and turbine wheel/shaft to be rebalanced. Just think of it this way - your tires need to be balanced and these ONLY turn at several thousand rpm - a turbo however can spin as fast as 80k-100k rpm so precision balancing of all the rotating components is extremely crucial. Most shops will only charge $50-60 or less for this btw

 

Here was one other post on sl of a guy rebuilding a similar turbo to mine and he took pics his shaft looks like mineon the thread right above the nut this green blue stuff is there I think this thing was glued too!!!

 

Update: I got the darn shaft bolt off! And for future reference with this bolt it's lefty=tighty on this bolt! Any one want pics of this build before I continue on to the internals?

 

Ummm not wanting to be an ___ at all here - ^but i said that up there^

 

yea i guess u did say that up there sorry it just confused me with the whole clock/counterclockwise thing. but now i have an even bigger problem i took the shaft out and i can see the internals turns out this things a ball bearing turbo im not quite sure if i should be happy or not but the rebuild kit this guy gave me is for a non ball bearing turbo sooooo next questions is wheres the best place to send this turbo to be rebuilt? turbonetics sucks chunks with there website i have yet to find out alllll the specs on this thing and untill right now that i got the shaft off i didnt even know it was bb!!!!!
so i ask for yalls help again where do i send it off too?