Lots Of Turbo Shaft Play On Neo Rb25

[revolt]

While inspecting my intake hoses for a different problem, I checked the turbo and it has heaps of forward-back play in it. Similar to this YT vid, maybe a bit less than this:

I am not concerned with lack of power, but will it be safe to drive this on stock boost for a few months, until I can afford to get a hiflow? It spins smoothly by hand.

Thanks

[hypergear]

Time to overhaul or high flow. Not suppose to have any shaft play with BB setup (+/- 10 thou).

[R31Nismoid]

You can have shaft play with a BB setup. There is shaft play on EVERY turbo. There is just less on ball bearing than journal, once the oil is in there of course that disappears.

A turbo that doesnt have any movement would be siezed.

All my Ball Bearing turbo's have had minor play, they were all brand new.

That turbo though = fubar. So if your anything near that then don't even waste your time.

Honestly you are better off just buying another 2nd hand one, $350-$400. Rebuild will be more than that, hi-flow for a decent Ball Bearing jobbie is $1700

[OVADRV]

Save yourself alot of time and buy a new turbo,do not put that back on,unless you want to pull all the parts off your engine and search for all the bits when it goes. (past experience) even found a piece in my Idle Control Regulator.