Well today i went to replace a couple that attaches to my turbo....I started to drive and heard a ringing sound coming from my hood so i parked. I spun the turbo by hand and i can hear something in the turbo spining and dropping inside. i have a pte 5557 how do i get to the inside of the turbo to remove whatever it is

 

your description sucks. "dropping inside"?? inside the comp cover? turbine houseing? CHRA? details son!

 

I have no idea where it is thats the problem. When i turn the inlet side i can hear it moving around and jiggling or whatever

 

you can take the front cover off. take off the intake and charge pipe. there are going to be bolts behind the compressor cover that you can remove. maybe 5 or 6. pull the compressor cover off and whatever is in there will come out. hopefully it didn't damage it to bad

 

thats no good

 

I didnt even drive a mile so thats the good part. So Josh what your saying is take off the 5-6 gold bolts and the metal plate holding the intake side on then just pull it off to the side and it will come off

 

Any shaft play? Good luck dude.

 

no doesnt feel like any shaft play. Only thing i can think of is when i took the coupler off i dropped a clamp and something fell in the turbo..but everything was on the clamp still

the gold bolts here or the ones on the dark silver piece

http://www.treadstoneperformance.com...96-1-large.jpg

 

remove the gold bolts

 

then it should just slide over...think its safe to drive the car like a quarter of a mile if i just put it cause im in a parking lot right now

 

I wouldn't

 

x2! The damage is probly already done tho

 

if your worried about preventing damage, dont even fire the car. the shaft speeds that small turbos like that carry at idle are still enough to damage a wheel if something is in fact in one of the housings.

the damage is probably already done tho, so i guess i wouldn't worry about it too much by now.

when you pull the cover off, be careful to not hit the wheel with it. turbine blades are easy to bend.

 

It might be a plastic piece of something in which you might get lucky. I like to think optimistically tho

 

well took off the intake side nothing..I clocked the turbo to make the coupler easier to get to the turbo and now its gone. I think the way the turbo was clocked caused it to hit the compressor

 

Hmm, that's good to hear!

 

wtf! thats supposed to be a cnc machined matched part so no matter the cover direction the two stay close but never hit. i bet something small fell out.

this is my factory maf change and the turbo found the one maf screw the dealer tech lost

 

I had a prob like this with my old wrx, sucked up a peice of gasket through the up pipe, broke fins and make the turbine come to a stand still lol. Sucked.