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Hi mates I want to get some bearings for my turbo. The size I need is 26x10x8. Does anyone know where I can get them? My local bearing shop only had one the said was rated to 12000 rpm but when I googled it it was actually 36000 rpm in oil.

What speed do they need to be good for?

When you get shaft play is it from the bearings?

Bearings are the least of your dramas. How are you re balancing your turbo? 1/4 of a gram gets VERY heavy when you spin it quickly! What turbo is it for? Most modern garretts are non rebuildable. Most are only available as a core (bearing, housings turbines etc, pre build, pre balanced)

If you need bush bearings, then I can get them easily through a local turbo supplier.

Shaft play which way? in out or up down?

You can't. Garrett make it very hard and or expensive to get replacements. That's one of the reasons the GCG rebuilds are so expensive. Try Hypergear - he will know if they can be got.

I wouldn't try rebuild it. Balancing is the main issue. As for the speed. 150k to 200k more than that is over spinning your turbo. Danger will Robinson danger. Lol

Edited by MJTru

During the VNT CBB development the shaft speed of the SS2 Alpha have maxed out the gauge of 180,000RPMs around 5000RPMs, so by the end of the run of 7200RPMs it would be over 200,000RPMs.

The 12,000RPMs bearings don't work, they could be easily obtained, those were the first ones I've tried and Very nosy.

Apart from balancing, and shaft speed there are many other critical areas to be considered. It took me close to a year to workout all aspects and having it working reliably.

Yeah I've only ever rebuilt turbos for large diesel engines which only rev to about 2100rpm, and they were pretty heavy duty bush bearing turbos. Fair bit of screwing around getting everything right on the shaft then balancing the thing. This is why I gave my original comment. If he can't source bearings, I dont know if I could trust the final build of the turbo

Talk to Stao ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

He definently knows his stuff, plenty of happy customers on here, myself included

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