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Its this broke Ed,
I am travelling a bit further North to a specialist turbo rebuilder who I had an explicit conversation with who was not bothered in the slightest about the wastegate lever being off the side, he asked sensible questions about cracked housings etc but stated new wastegate flaps, spindles and bushes are very common, he did laugh hartily when I told him the reason an exchange was refused.
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If I said I was angry today, that would be an understatement!
I vow never to go near Hurxkens car parts for as long as I live!
Wasted an hour driving there with my broken turbo, then waiting around another half hour while they Mildly miffed me off telling me they wouldnt take my broken turbo on exchange as it was "broken", basicall, they had to do more than slap a 90 euro cartridge in it, spray it silver and knock it out for 300 euro so not interested, reconditioned exchange means exactly that surely? Take broken one, in exchange for reconditioned one and fix it, eat, sleep, rave, repeat!
I will never forget being told by some stupid kid "no no, no exchange, it's broken" I would never have guessed
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You mentioned tyres, 285/?x16?......
What TXB are you running? 1.4? 1.2?
I found that my gearing is horribly high in my Disco with a 1.2 TXB and 235/85x16 tyres!
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If stainless is the way to go, then perhaps fitting stainless studs is also worthwhile?
Although, I am hoping not to need to take it off again for a very long time!!!
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I previously just put std steel nuts back on but having sheared and rounded off all of the nuts and studs holding the turbo to the manifold I need to replace them, now remembering the old 2.6 6cyl exhaust issuesof the past I do remember the nuts being brass and easily coming off, only needing to replace rotten studs but having perfectly serviceable nuts.
Any reason not to swap over on the turbo? I wonder if the heat will be an issue?
Just double checking the studs from manifold to turbo are M8 X 25?
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Only sheared one turbo to manifold stud, quit whilst ahead so still a chance of shearing off the other 3
but it is off after an hours faffing around!
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It is coming off tonight after work, hopefully all studs in tact :?
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What about a secondhand, even scrap one and transfer the waste gate portion over? Not got one in front of me, so I don't know of it's possible, but it'd allow you to keep the known good bits of yours?
250 euro sounds a lot. I'm sure secondhand disco turbos can be found for around £50 over here? Worth a search if you haven't already maybe?
On the bay they are trading at around £50/£75, but silly money for S/H stuff here, was thinking to suffer the asthmatic drive until Wednesday and pop it off and see if I could work some bush magic with my welder and some spare hardox round bar I have under the bench, maybe even turn it down a couple thou to stop it happening again?
I was how ever distracted by a couple of threads bleating on about VNTs, got a breakers local who get a lot of Sprinters in, thinking cash is king and maybe a couple €50s in my pocket could yield an interesting project?
Drove to Albert Heign today for groceries, by golly is it even more noticeable the lack of power
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Current options, used turbo of unknown origins and condition off Marktplaats €225. Try and get it rebuilt but at an unknown cost with this problem, or pop the elbow off and try and close the flap up a bit to give some boost?
Any other ideas?
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It was more of a rocking motion Mike, it didn't move in any direction then off it popped.
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Well, good and bad news!
Good news, I no longer have a seized wastegate lever.
Bad news, pictures paint a thousand words.
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Does anyone know how it all comes apart before I immobilize myself removing the turbo?
It is not shifting one bit at the mo, guessing I ought to pull the turbo an try it on the bench as trying with reasonable force feels more like I am going to shear the arm off the spindle
now that would be a slight disaster! Was wondering whether complete removal was an option and just run fully charged all the time?
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Good question Richard, if I can free it up this time then perhaps get it reconditioned locally, it could probably benefit from new seals, might slow up the oil consumption anyhow?
Still bathing in WD40 for now, gonna pop the clip and actuator arm off and give it a wriggle again tonight after work.
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Had this a while back, over a year ago for sure, but the wastegate spindle seems to be seized solid, performance seemed a bit lacklustre these last few weeks but put it down to barely being driven apart from groceries but a bit of a fettle with plumbing in the boost gauge to see whats going on showed almost nothing happening at all.
done the usual, liberal dousing in wd40 slow steady applications of man sized pressure and zip all happening.
whats next?
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Has to be said, I'm a bit lost with it, it has two turbo chargers on the bonnet as well as the super charger sticking up in the middle, left and right bank wing pipe exhausts but still got chrome barrow handles out the back, and wtf happened to the dash? Anyone with a half grain of sense would know chrome panel facing you whilst driving in a sunny country = accident waiting to happen.
Apart from that, at least the chassis will be rust free
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Join us in the Auvergne.
You got a linky for more details Arjan?
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could be me, but I find that strangely appealing just better laid out with better colour schemeI think this is beyond saving.
http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/300tdi-defender/9370329?offset=12
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My 92' 200Tdi heater blower is fused unlike the RRC of same vintage! Yours should have been too, but knowing some of Jordans bodges from previous owners almost anything is possible
Like I say, best option is fitting bearings in place of the bushings.
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Not good here in NL, the diesel taxation on your road tax kills any idea of savings
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Oh how familliar that is
Cutting it off and crimping on some terminals gets you out of a spot of bother but why did it melt so badly?
Guessing it will be something to do with wore out motor bushings causing overload of the circuit try to push heavy amps to spin the sticking shaft!
My old one looked like this.
New motors are available but poor fitting and need a ton of work to make them fit, better to get proper bearings and fit as new motors even come with cheaper and nastier bushes!
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I always found the 2.25 diesel asthmatic by modern standards, but they can be adjusted to go reasonably well(by 1970s standards that is
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That must be horrendous to drive on 40" tyres, no mention of any gear reduction in there much like that 90 from a few months back.
really impressed by the attention to detail, that near side rear quarter is top class panel beating, you can barely see it's had a knock or 5,and top marks on the interior photography, no time spared making the right lighting to show it off and every angle covered
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Well he made it home, clutchless shifting did the trick, I am far too busy at work to run errands(I hate fitting kitchens under a deadline!) Although I have been known to find ways to make work fit around helping out mates
Will tell him to get a starter in the stores ready to go on, thanks for that tip
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Just off the phone from Marcel, he has no clutch at all, pedal just hits the floor, helped him with new clutch in it maybe 3/4 months back, everything replaced only, he didn't get a new clutch fork so my guess is old one has died under the pressure of new clutch springs.
He is 60kms from home, I told him to just start in gear and do some clutchless shifting, but whats the general concesus on this? Recovery truck is gonna cost him 300
now that would be a slight disaster! 
It means something else!
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FF, I totally get your angle, but considering the WG spindle and bush are wearing parts, the WG flaps do come adrift and there were no flaws in the housings, I just don't buy that argument!
After all, if it just needed a cartridge I'd have done that at home and could have ordered off the internet.
Ben you have no idea how dissappointed I am in them and also another Dutch guy who would have sold me the turbo I am going to collect in the morning, just for an extra €150 in his favor, I knew 10% extra was common but 30% is a being greedy, it only serves to encourage me to spend elsewhere!!!