Quote Originally Posted by GreggPDX View Post
I'm confused, how does rolling the car without the axles installed destroy the bearings? I'm quite sure I rolled mine around quite a bit during the my 6-speed swap, and I haven't had any issues with the bearing since then. It's been a couple years, I assume any issues would have showed up by now...
GreggPDX, sounds like you were one of the lucky ones....Jolio can attest that some blow apart from his experience, and it sounds like nubcake can too!

EDIT...looks like nubcake got his thoughts in while I was typing too...

Totally makes sense to me now, just not something that I had thought about....and appreciate the knowledge that others here have and are willing to share!

On a positive note moving forward, one of my biggest fears of the whole project were those 14 turbo mounting studs/nuts (from manifolds and to downpipes)...I was able to successfully remove them all last night, so one less hurdle to worry about! I'll have time later today and tomorrow to continue disassembly and hopefully get the turbos completely off. A quick check of the oil leaking turbo, and it seems that there is zero to very minimal shaft play...looking forward to getting that one in my hands to see exactly where the oil is coming from. From what I can see so far, it's not dripping down from the top, but coming from the inside and leaking out...