Please help me find out!!
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Please help me find out!!
I got a RB full exhaust last week and installed it. I got the turbo to mainifold gasket but left the stock gasket from the mainiflold to block. After done installing, i heard a leak around the turbo, mainifold area. SO i orderd a gasket for that and put it on this weekend. ************ is still leaking!! And i cleaned everything good before putting it on. I hand tighten all the bolts really hard. I dont understand where its leaking from. Could it be the Turbo mainifold?? I used my friends, has 144k on it. It sounds like its coming from the turbo/ mainifold area, but im not sure if it could be anything else. IS there any way to check. I mean i got under the car and tryed listening but you can pin point wherre its coming from. Its sound liek a ticking sound so i dunno where it can be coming from. Thanx guys
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"I hand tighten all the bolts really hard. " ?
I don't know much about installing turbos.. As I have never had one yet...
But perhaps the bolts need to be tightened more?
I don't know much about installing turbos.. As I have never had one yet...
But perhaps the bolts need to be tightened more?
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NO trust me i tighten them really hard, theres only a certian point to how hard you can tighten them. When the parts get hot. they expand and they can actually break if there over tighten. Happned to my friend turbo. I dotn think it the tightne part thats the problem.
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theres only a certian point to where you can tigthen the bolts to before you would actually crack from the heat. Im sure you knwo that metal expands when it gets hot and thus it will end up cracking it tighten too much. Happend to my friends turbo
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