Interesting Turbo Issue

[fatz]

maybe im the only one who has had this happen

anyway I discovered a leak between the turbo core and the exhaust housing (only exhaust gass was escaping).. anyway on closer inspection 3 bolts of 6 had has come loose and actually fallen out and the other 3 needed a tighten

could also be because my turbo has been off and rotated andmaybe I dindt tighten enough

spooky... anyway here is a heads up for anyone just in case

cheers

Pete

[Trough Lolly]

that's an old issue. ford monkeys are actually meant to tighten these bolts EVERY service as stated in the service manual. cops ass then even give it a thought...

[Mr Turbo]

Yep this happened to me half way down the 1/4 track at Heathcote! sh*t myself, thought it was a exhaust manafold gasket or something along those lines

But yeah it was the 2 bolts that came off thanks god!

Rob...

[fatz]

bugger I donet feel special any more

[Paradoxx]

It's pretty common with turbo cars, it's a wonder they dont use some kind of locking device like a spring washer or something. This fixed the vr4 up no worries, just some stainless steel spring washers... and that was running 20psi!!

[fatz]

lol funny you say that

ford parts just said do you want the locking tabs with the bolt

lol

2.50 each ouch

me thinks they thought I was talking about manifold to turbo bolts

oh well gcg 2.50 a pop nasty!

[xrdreaming]

Happend to me half way to Adelaide at 5am overtaking semi, wasn't impressed!

[bjc]

You are all saying it happened to me? but what happened? noise,car splutter, what?

Brett.

[GOLDIE]

They get noisy and like on I saw the other day that had three bolts missing and the last bolt was loose it had boost problems too.

Ian

[bjc]

Jesus, I better check mine now.