got the turbo broken down in about 45 min or so. It was very easy, all bolts came loose no problems there. This turbo had a severe oil leak probably more than one, lol. I will be doing a very detailed write up on it and post it in the Tech forum. I found a few right ups but not as detailed as I would have liked. I had to read about 4 before I found ALL necessary info to properly and safely rebuild a wet float T3 Turbo. Here are a few pics of the tear down, I dont have the rebuild kit yet because I wanted to visualize the parts first so I order the right kit the first time.
loc-tite on the compressor wheel threads, thats a good sign I guess..

compressor wheel off and somewhat cleaned. All parts will get a good bath before they get put back together.
compressor wheel indexed to shaft before it came off. I dont know if this assembly was balanced as a whole, probably not, but I will treat it like it was.

this is just to show how dirty and oily the compressor housing was, this is after it was mostly cleaned

compressor wheel and housing back plate cleaned and set aside.

Shaft and CHRA looking healthy so far!

Turbo nearly completely apart, besides the wet float bearings, my circlip pliers were not small enough. I will extract them later..

Shaft and turbine look healthy, as far as I can tell there is no material transfer on the bearing surfaces of the shaft, not do I feel or see any witness marks or grooves. GOOD to go on the rebuild. Will update when the kit arrives and is installed.

Got to get this broken bolt out! Sucks, I guess thats why I got it so cheap, lol!
