Little bro popped by last night.......
He's not been using the truck much over lockdown, mainly because he used his VW Caddy and partially because it's not really working right at the moment.
A while ago his turbo gave up and we swapped another GT2052V onto it that was of unknown origin, although this allowed the truck to move again under it's own steam, it still wasn't spooling up and boosting
We had a quick look last night and thought we were going to get lucky
After a word of wisdom from Uncle Blocky, we set about checking the vac pipes with the intercooler off and we found multiple perished pipes!!!
We didn't have enough pipe to swap all of the perished ones but we swapped the ones that had visible holes in and any that looked short and perished but we ran out of spares.
I've told him to order some of this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272353219992
He also wants to refurbish the original turbo and refit it to the truck.
As neither of us have never done the job before, tools permitting, we were going to try the job ourselves :nenau as long as there's no re-machining etc needed
Looks like there's plenty of kits about;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Turbocha...pm8eq4P8ejCwCQxfHvyfvYGgTADnXhA8aAmq7EALw_wcB
Anyone ever rebuilt one before and is it a DIY job at home :nenau
Thanks Gents