With all that has been going on in our lives, from getting married, to expensive truck repairs, to Danielle's back injury, surgery, recovery, and all of the additional honey-do's that come with the above, I finally caught a break this weekend, and tackled the 650T's turbocharger issue.
It turns out that rebuilding a CX turbocharger is not that difficult, but it is meticulous and time consuming. It is also easy to screw things up.
I was Greg Goss' test dummy for a CX turbocharger rebuild procedure manual. After making one really stupid, but easily avoidable mistake that required a replacement part (a turbocharger destroying mistake), I was able to rebuild the t-charger myself.
I have lots of notes for Greg to help prevent someone from making the same mistake that I did, so when his manual comes out, it should be pretty dummy proof.
Anyway, All day Saturday and half of Sunday, I spent swapping everything out, got her all bolted back together, and spent some time in the electrical, cleaning and di-electric greasing everything I could get at.
My idle is still a little funky, but I have a full set of sensors in storage, so I may try swapping one out to see what happens.
However, good news is that the rebuild process was a complete success in that with minimal help from Greg, I was able to tear down, strip, clean, and reassemble the "unserviceable" turbocharger without losing the balance that is so critical to these fast spinning VG1 & VG-3's.
No more red blinky lights!
It turns out that rebuilding a CX turbocharger is not that difficult, but it is meticulous and time consuming. It is also easy to screw things up.
I was Greg Goss' test dummy for a CX turbocharger rebuild procedure manual. After making one really stupid, but easily avoidable mistake that required a replacement part (a turbocharger destroying mistake), I was able to rebuild the t-charger myself.
I have lots of notes for Greg to help prevent someone from making the same mistake that I did, so when his manual comes out, it should be pretty dummy proof.
Anyway, All day Saturday and half of Sunday, I spent swapping everything out, got her all bolted back together, and spent some time in the electrical, cleaning and di-electric greasing everything I could get at.
My idle is still a little funky, but I have a full set of sensors in storage, so I may try swapping one out to see what happens.
However, good news is that the rebuild process was a complete success in that with minimal help from Greg, I was able to tear down, strip, clean, and reassemble the "unserviceable" turbocharger without losing the balance that is so critical to these fast spinning VG1 & VG-3's.
No more red blinky lights!