Just me, but rebuilding a turbo takes more equipment than I have, I have seen what happens when a turbo comes apart and gets eaten by the monster that lives inside the big lump of iron. It included a muffler full of coolant and oil. I have dealt with a shop near here that specializes in turbo's and injectors, they re-balance the impeller and measure the clearances precisely. Their shop has a clean room for doing the assembly.
Just sayin'
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "bgiovan" <bgiovan@...> wrote:
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> Yes, and that would be me! I ordered the rebuild kit from Mercedessource to rebuild the turbo on my '79 300SD. After a series of fits and starts over the course of about 3 months, finally got it done but obviously didn't do it very well. After 300 miles it gave up the ghost. Loud whirring sound then kaput! Not working at all now.
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> Luckily I have another ready to go (original) but now I need to take it all back apart again and reinstall the original (rebuilt the one off my '80 300SD parts car.
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> Not driving the car at all now, read to many horror stories about runaway diesels due to oil in the intake and metal shavings in the pan.
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> Other than that...fun times. Car is (was) running great.
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> Ben near Detroit
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