I've been told and it seems to be true that the vanes are stuck in my turbo. I have a manual transmission and everytime I shift up it bogs down. The turbo does not seem to engage until around 2000rpm. I do not have a boost gauge yet. If this is true is there any way to unstick them. My neighbor said he sprayed his down with oven cleaner and let it soak (however he has a VW). I've also been told that the turbo has to come off and be bead blasted. Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you to all.

 

There are videos and such you can find. Nothing you can spray anywhere will do anything. You have to take the turbo off (2 hours if you find all your tools first and follow the instructions), take the vee band off the hot housing and pop the housing off and you'll see what you need to clean. If it's just soot you can clean it, if it's rusted you probably need a new turbo because even though you can clean it the rust will just come back very quickly. BTW I did this last weekend and posted about it, you can search on Rotomaster turbo and probably find it.

Brian

 

This is how you remove the turbo:


This is how you clean the turbo:

 

If you have an '03 6.0L, buy this:
PSWT10K, Wrench, Ford PowerStroke Diesel Turbo

And a 17mm one of these:
Sears.com

Striking prybars for the marmon clamps/ to lift to turbo:
Sears.com

If for some reason you need to take the up-pipes out:
CXM1113, Wrench, Metric, Half Moon Box, 11-13 mm, 12-Point

The wrench is for the bolt with a vertical face behind the turbo and lets you push/pull instead of trying to lift up on a ratchet because there's no room back there. The damaged nut remover grabs the shoulder of the bolt and the spacer if (/when) you strip out the head of it. If you don't have a decent shoulder drive type socket, get one in 10mm to reduce the change you strip out the bolts.

To put my .02 on the video: Take out the hot side CAC tube, remove the intake tubing and air filter, remove the oil feed line and the VGT wiring connector. Loosen the downpipe marmon clamp and use a long prybar to pop it loose. Kneel on the intercooler, bear hug the turbo with an arm around each side and take off the y-pipe marmon clamp. Keep hugging it and use the fancy wrench to take out the rear mounting bolt. Then use a ratchet on the front two bolts. Use the prybar to lift the turbo off the drain tube, and have someone handy to hand it to when you roll it out of where it sits.

Check out the engine removal tips .pdf to see how to flip the y-pipe marmon clamp and how to use the half moon wrench on the up-pipes if you need to remove those. Bellows leaks are common enough that when you pull the turbo check out the firewall insulation for black soot that would indicate a failure in the up-pipe or y-pipe bellows.