super charger wear

[event2]

hey i feel my super charger is starting to get a bit worn it hasnt droped in the boost department i jst find that its uses a bit of oil my car has done 176000kms now. soo i was woundering about reconditioning it like getting a seal kit and mayb bush and bearings depending on what they have. im sure bearings or bushes would be easy enough to find just woundering about the seals.

cheers

[matt dunn]

hey i feel my super charger is starting to get a bit worn it hasnt droped in the boost department i jst find that its uses a bit of oil my car has done 176000kms now. soo i was woundering about reconditioning it like getting a seal kit and mayb bush and bearings depending on what they have. im sure bearings or bushes would be easy enough to find just woundering about the seals.

cheers

The supercharger itself uses oil, or the engine uses oil?

The s/c is really a non servicable item according to the service manuals.

Matt

[evil_si]

the genuine bearings are unavailable, in fact there are no bearings of those type , size made any more,
the only way to do it is match a bearing to the shaft, and machine the end plates to take the bigger size bearing,
they are a ball bearing, not a bush as such,

seals are easy enough to come by as they are a fairly common size

[event2]

yea the super charger it self. uses about 50ml every 5000 kms super chager oil. r the seals just like the oil seals in alternators with vacume pumps on the back? i can get them easy enuff

[evil_si]

they are just a lip type oil seal, any were like saeco should be able tyo supply them

[FLAWLES]

hate to point it out man...... but you can buy the bearings for the chargers done the home work and found the orginal toyota part numbers then crossed them over to the koyo bearing numbers " whitch i dont have on me now at this moment in time "
pending on were you are like in hamilton or chch go see SMP bearings they are the koyo imports for nz.. but this bearing is not a off the shelf part

and the failer of these bearings is caused by the s/c pulley bearing " same az on a a/c unit " these flog out and causes the drive rotor bearing to chuck its toys out of the sand pit

[ndeany]

can you not get an engineer to machine it out to fit larger bearings??

[FLAWLES]

i spose it would be posible but dont now how the alumium would cope

[evil_si]

well done on finding a bearing that crosses over,
ive tried a few different bearing agents and never had any luck.

the auto clinic in east tamaki rebuild these blowers, and from what i understand machine out the end plates to take a bigger bearing,
which is how i intended to rebuild a blower i was playing around with

[ndeany]

do you have any idea what it costs??

[FLAWLES]

well done on finding a bearing that crosses over,
ive tried a few different bearing agents and never had any luck.

the auto clinic in east tamaki rebuild these blowers, and from what i understand machine out the end plates to take a bigger bearing,
which is how i intended to rebuild a blower i was playing around with

this would be a better idea machining the housings out to fit a bigger bearing " and a better one " like a c3 type bearing

prob be cheeper to

[ndeany]

hey anyone had one rebuilt?? What did it cost?? Have you noticed any improvements in performance??

[vvega]

well done on finding a bearing that crosses over,
ive tried a few different bearing agents and never had any luck.

the auto clinic in east tamaki rebuild these blowers, and from what i understand machine out the end plates to take a bigger bearing,
which is how i intended to rebuild a blower i was playing around with

this would be a better idea machining the housings out to fit a bigger bearing " and a better one " like a c3 type bearing

prob be cheeper to

is 100-150,000 kms of use not good enough from the stock bearings???

v

[FLAWLES]

wasnit for me

died at rite on 100-000k
and was only doing 10psi and was just resintly top up " this was my first s/c " not the 2nd

[Fandango]

[/quote]this would be a better idea machining the housings out to fit a bigger bearing " and a better one " like a c3 type bearing

Uhhm, C3 is not better than a normal bearing. C3 simply means 'increased clearance', to allow for expansion in VERY high temperature aplications. In fact it would probably wear out faster than a 'stock bearing' as you say.

[Fandango]

ooops I quoted myself, what a knob.