My buddy picked up a turbo kit for the insane price of $100. Anywho, it's got an XS Turbo that has a buttload of oil in the exhaust housing. Does he just need new seals? If so, what are those particular seals called because we'll need to order some.

Thanks!

 

i take it no rebuild kit for that turbo?

 

Well I'm assuming it's a garett clone (i might be assuming too much?) so a garett rebuild kit would work. Some kits have tons of parts and some have few. We need the cheapest kit we can get that doesnt include a bunch of parts we dont need

 

if it leaked oil that bad, both the shaft and the piston ring are worn out. Just a new piston ring will not cure the leakage. especially with a chinese turbo that has much inferior mechanical properties and wears out so easily. re-Machining the ring land and using an oversized piston ring is most of the times needed, as well of course as rebalacing the rotating assembly which is not just " a good idea" but required for a reliable result, especially on the chinese turbos that never seem to be balanced at all anyway, from what I've seen.

 

send it to BLAAST ^^^^^^