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Message: [QUOTE="ghohouston, post: 1568081, member: 9421"] Hello guys, good to see some of the original people back and active on here after some years. I have a few questions that KC Turbo basically won't answer, and hoping someone has the answer here. Buddy of mine has an old Garrett 38r with more play than acceptable, he will basically give it to me. Cool, KC sells a journal bearing replacement chra for an original 38r. Like a year or so ago, I emailed them asking if the chra they sell (and claim to be rebuildable), would accept the sxe turbine/ shaft they sell, but the late 99-03 van turbo style, as I would LOVE to use/ retain both a larger exducer and 1.15 exhaust housing (truck currently has a late 99-03 van turbo on it). Well the one email I got basically said it probably won't work, the shaft lengths might be different, threads for comp wheel might be different, etc. Basically trying to sell me a turbo and would not directly answer any of my questions, and absolutely acted like they didn't have a clue as far as shaft size, exducer size, and tried to sell me a new turbo. So shit got put on the back burner, I decide to call them up today, said hey, that 38r journal bearing replacement chra you guys sell, would the sxe turbine you sell work in that? Ohh no, wouldn't work. I ask what if the shaft ever snaps in the claimed "rebuildable" chra they sell, and stated well it almost has to be the same turbine put in it when built that the late 99-03 trucks used, because magically, no where on their site does it list a replacement turbine for it, only the chra, but again, it's claimed to be rebuildable. "Oh well there's usually so much damage it has to be replaced anyways". What the ****? Why do they even sell anything other thab new turbos if this the way a potential customer is treated, TWICE. And then of course, got offered to buy a new turbo, again. So anyways, does anyone have info out there of maybe an original 38r chra (minus the compressor/ exhaust housing) length, like total length of the shaft? There is plenty of info online about the old stock turbos, but I don't have a good way to properly measure that if I do grab the turbo from my buddy. I don't want to waste money on something that's not going to work, but I am about 99.5% certain, the late 99-03 van style sxe turbine will drop right into the journal bearing 38r chra they sell, then I can slap on the van turbo 1.15 ex housing, and be happy. [/QUOTE]