From the story on the "getting started" page, you'll know that I got this turbo on the left free of charge, $0.00.
The reason the turbo was free, is that the bearings were completely worn out for some reason, usually the bearings only fail if the oil quality is poor or if there is not enough oil pressure.
In fact, the bearings were so bad , the exhaust turbine was beginning to rub on the housing.
So, when I went to find a rebuild kit there were none around. Then I found another T04 on Ebay
that I picked up for $177.00, it's a rebuild unit that matches almost exactly to the old, now retired T04.
the compressor size is A/R .60 and the exhaust is A/R 1.32, on the new turbo I would have liked to get a hybrid turbo like a T3/T4 so it wouldn't take such a high volume of hot gases to drive the turbo, I would have liked to have something more like A/R .60 on the compressor and A/R .90 on the exhaust but for $177.00 rebuilt how can you go wrong when there is a tight budget.
The only visible difference between the two turbochargers is the compressor housing style.
Other than that, these two are almost identical.
Now for lubrication, I needed to build a lubrication system that will pump, filter, and cool the oil.
To start off, I need to pressurize the oil, to do this I needed a hydraulic pump, I ended up finding one
in the back of my Grandpa's machine shop, it was a Cessna oil pump that used to be on an IBM machine
some 30 years ago, I guess IBM liked this pump as well, it's a sturdy little gear pump that will
do quite a bit, including the lubrication for my jet engine. Another place this kind of pump was used at,
is a solvent parts washer that my Grandpa built for his shop in Kansas.
Now, the reason we have all those pumps, my Grandpa worked for IBM for 30 years, and when one of
these pumps would leak at all, even just enough to make a dirty looking spot, he had to replace the whole pump.
All I needed to do, was replace one small rubber seal around the shaft of the pump. 
For an oil cooler I used the heat exchanger off of a car heater, which you can see in the picture above.
This picture shows "from left to right" the oil cooler, 12 volt fan motor driving the, oil pump.
Well I can't go any further until we get some of my pre-assembled parts from kansas to Utah (where I live). I packed all the dried-out parts Into two boxes and hauled them up to the house with a trailer hooked up to one of my grandpa's lawn mowers , then off to the airport that will have a plane headed for utah. The whole trip was around easter 2005, school was out for a few days, ya know the whole thing, but I really enjoy spending time with my grand parents.
This is the same rig as shown above, but now it is featuring my home built oil tank, and some new rubber hose.
I have installed a bypass valve (to set oil pressure), and a panel mount oil pressure gauge.
Until the next page, see ya later, Heath Jepson.
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