keep turbo from seizing?

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eurosx
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I have a slightly used HKS GT2535 that I puchased off of a friend a little while back. I don't intend on using it on my current european CA and plan to store it for about a year to use on my project back in the states. My question is: Is there anything that I need to do durring the storage time to keep it from seizing up?


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Xero
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having never dealt with this, and making a TOTAL stab in the dark, maybe you could attach fitting to the oil inlet and outlet, and put oil in there, and spin it occasionally, that is probably not the correct way to do it, but that seems the most logical, to me atleast

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slw240sx
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i think that might coke it up

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paul_s13
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Just a regular spray with a light oil such as WD40 should be fine.

chezina
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Why should normal oil coke up the turbo during storage, your not heating it up to 1000degree during storage.

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chezina wrote:Why should normal oil coke up the turbo during storage, your not heating it up to 1000degree during storage.


I wondered that too. :confused:


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