How much turbo shaft play is too much?

[~SlideWays~]

Im new to turbo's, ive just removed mine and it has a lil play but it doesnt smoke (anymore... lol).

Its a t25g, are there any sort of "safe" limits? ie should it have play when new and how much is too much.

Thanks in advance.

[Akane]

0.18mm up/down
0.13mm in/out

(Those specs is for CT26, but should be pretty much around that ballpark)

[Lloyd]

Shouldn't really be any in/out at all. You'd expect a little up and down which in most cases the oil would take that up (depending how much play there is)

[vvega]

generally if you can feel thrust(end to end movement) its warn
and side to side is hard to tell specailly if the oil has drained out of the turbo

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