Someone Please help Me. Im trying to remove stock turbo
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Soak that top bolt with some PB blaster or equivalent. Perhaps it will soak into the threads, really hard to tell though.
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Well fuck. Put some muscle into it! lol
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I raged last night at the oem mani heatshield trying to get it reinstalled without bending anything. Its no longer a heatshield, its a pancake.
Fuck it.
Fuck it.
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Are the turbo and downpipe still attached? If so and this is the last bolt, its probably because they are all weighing down on that one bolt. Id get a beefy breaker bar to crack it loose if not. Turbo/mani install is no joke... When you re-install be sure to tighten all the bolts and nuts to spec (not easy to reach the bottom mani bolts). Youll have a nasty leak if theyre not.
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DO NOT strip the bolt!! haha, it will be 10x worse if you do, just take it slow, I'd shoot some PB blaster on it every hour for the next day then get a torque wrench or something equivalent in size, put a breaker bar over top of the handle and it should come out.
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I done this job about 3 months ago. You need to remove the DP before you remove the manifold.
Apply WD40 or penetrating oil to all nuts and studs before hand, Dont forget the turbo support bolts underneath
Heres how I done the turbo swap...
Remove front strut brace and refit the strut top nuts (dont forget this!!) or your shocks/dampers will fall out if you jack up the car.
Remove top boost pipe
Remove air intake pipe and airbox from turbo
Go under car
Remove down pipe!!!
Undo bolts from turbo suport brakets where they bolt to turbo (not engine)
You will need the long wobbly extension and muscle power here. (lube it all up first)
Undo the 12mm bolt on the oil drain support P clip (bolted to one of the turbo support brackets.
Remove oil drain bolt from engine block where return goes back into engine. Leave oil drain pipe in place for now
Go back uptop (under the hood)
Undo Compressor housing support braket from front of turbo and engine block next to gearbox bellhousing bolt.
Remove the water pipes one by the front suport bracket you have just removed and the other on thermostat housing.
Get your self on top of the engine looking down the back now.
Undo the four 14mm hex blots/studs that hold turbo to manifold (I can see in your photo they are still fitted)
with a mid length extension 14mm socket and ratchet. remove all the manifold to head nuts.
Wriggle out the manifold
Now you can see the turbo
Remove the oil feed banjo bolt
Reach under and lift out the oil drain pipe from block this is all that should be supporting the turbo at this time
Lift out the turbo..
Remove and swap the turbo elbow oil drain pipe and water pipes ect ect
Then rebuild/install it all in the reverse order
REMEMBER GET EVERY THING LUBED UP FIRST AND YOU WILL NEED A BREAKER BAR ON SOME OF THE BOLTS 100%
Hope that helped?
Apply WD40 or penetrating oil to all nuts and studs before hand, Dont forget the turbo support bolts underneath
Heres how I done the turbo swap...
Remove front strut brace and refit the strut top nuts (dont forget this!!) or your shocks/dampers will fall out if you jack up the car.
Remove top boost pipe
Remove air intake pipe and airbox from turbo
Go under car
Remove down pipe!!!
Undo bolts from turbo suport brakets where they bolt to turbo (not engine)
You will need the long wobbly extension and muscle power here. (lube it all up first)
Undo the 12mm bolt on the oil drain support P clip (bolted to one of the turbo support brackets.
Remove oil drain bolt from engine block where return goes back into engine. Leave oil drain pipe in place for now
Go back uptop (under the hood)
Undo Compressor housing support braket from front of turbo and engine block next to gearbox bellhousing bolt.
Remove the water pipes one by the front suport bracket you have just removed and the other on thermostat housing.
Get your self on top of the engine looking down the back now.
Undo the four 14mm hex blots/studs that hold turbo to manifold (I can see in your photo they are still fitted)
with a mid length extension 14mm socket and ratchet. remove all the manifold to head nuts.
Wriggle out the manifold
Now you can see the turbo
Remove the oil feed banjo bolt
Reach under and lift out the oil drain pipe from block this is all that should be supporting the turbo at this time
Lift out the turbo..
Remove and swap the turbo elbow oil drain pipe and water pipes ect ect
Then rebuild/install it all in the reverse order
REMEMBER GET EVERY THING LUBED UP FIRST AND YOU WILL NEED A BREAKER BAR ON SOME OF THE BOLTS 100%
Hope that helped?
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Sub'd for when I do this
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top tip BTW...
I lost the copper dual crusher washer from the banjo bolt (oil/coolant feed pipe) from the top of the turbo and thought i would just replace it with some washers that looked about the same size!! dont do this!! oil went everywhere whenI started the engine and set off all the fire alarms in my building lol!!
take good care of the crusher washers, as you will need to re-use them.
I had the turbo on and off a few times, it was also my first time doing the job but now I could do it no probs in a few hours I think.
I lost the copper dual crusher washer from the banjo bolt (oil/coolant feed pipe) from the top of the turbo and thought i would just replace it with some washers that looked about the same size!! dont do this!! oil went everywhere whenI started the engine and set off all the fire alarms in my building lol!!
take good care of the crusher washers, as you will need to re-use them.
I had the turbo on and off a few times, it was also my first time doing the job but now I could do it no probs in a few hours I think.
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You need a breaker bar and PB...easy then.
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