Just as the title says, Anyone ever do it themselves? If so what is involved?

 

Heres a rebuild for a T3 I found on the web while searching for my custom kit.
http://www.saab-900.com/techhelp/tec...rborebuild.htm
Hopefully this will answer some questions for you.

 

I have! It's a pain .... but it pays off.. I bought the rebuild kit for T3 turbo from http://www.turbonetics.com for $75.00. All the bolts are hard to take off, make sure you have a big vise to hold your turbo. make sure you use the correct size of wrench... because you can use the metric/standard combination and next thing you know ...strip bolt. Before you take the Trim off from the shaft ..mark a line for reassembly procedure... to make sure it is balance! Then you need a special pliers to take the c clips... I modified a long nose pliers.. for that purpose.. once it's off ... use a lot of degreaser to take the burnt oil crap that's inside of the oil path...once the cleaning and detailing is done...re-assembly time! make sure all the seals ar lubricated and your work area is clean... try putting some new bolts! (i did!....due to some strip bolts ) Good Luck ... I skip some detailed assembly ...but you should figure it out if you disassemble them...

 

What did you guys do about the balancing issue. Also what came with the turbonetics rebuild kit?

 

well, i didn't have enough money to send it out..so I make sure i mark the M10 nut and the threaded part of the shaft before i loosen them out ... so i'll know where to mark them back ..when i reassemble them,.. I'll get the list next time

 

Do you know what that nut is supposed to be torqued down to???

 

i plan on doing my own turbo rebuild.

 

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have you ran the turbo after the rebuild? Any problems?