Doesn't look any worse than mine. I'm at 160k. Have had the turbo out twice for just cleaning. Just take your time. Clean it up good and the squeaks go away.

 

And just what do you mean by ridding your stc fitting?

 

Replacing the STC fitting with the one piece connector. Technically there is no snap-to-connect fitting after that which is what I meant with my wording. It hasn't failed yet FWIW, it's preventative.

You can see on the surface of the unison ring the marks from the partially seized ring. That's where the squeaks coming from. It took a fair amount of prying to get the ring off the housing.

 

Your ring is not in as bad shape as mine was when I changed mine. I did change mine since I had it out and apart and did not want to go through the process of reconditioning a turbo again for a very long time. Wish I had a picture of my worn unison ring, but don't.

 

Mine did as well. I just took a couple hours to be picky while cleaning it and havnt had one squeak yet.

 

Actually looks pretty good

 

you do have some wearing in the actuator slot, I changed mine just to be safe.. I think it was 168.00 at the dealer by me

 

I found a decent price on the ring ($112) and was thinking about replacing it. But, after looking at it a bit longer the wear in the slot doesn't seem excessive. It's worn slightly but I'm on the fence on replacing it. I'm leaning towards throwing it back in there. The actuator pin has very slight wear but you can hardly see it. Looking at the pin from the top it still looks perfectly round. Of course the only way to fix the pin is replace the turbo or CHRA. Since labor isn't an issue for me I'm thinking about reusing the ring and seeing how it goes after a while, but I'll post a couple more detailed pics of the wear.

I'm measuring .005" of wear on the pin and about .008" wear on the ring slot totaling 13-thousanths total wear at it's loosest spot. It's like a lot but .013" is pretty small.

 

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