Digi7ech

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Quick story.

I have a S5 rebuilt turbo.
Ported the wastegate a year ago myself.

Ever since then the bolts holding the hotside on work themselves out over the period of a couple months.

Today going to work I hear a CLANK on the highway after hitting 10psi.
I then hear an exhaust leak.

I look under the hood to find the top screw moveable with my fingers and there is a bolt completely missing now from a lower part.(The clank I heard)


So what type of thread locker can I use on the hotside?

Any specific locktite or somethign which can withstand glowing turbo appplications?

I'm at work so I'll probably be fixing this on my lunch break
Thx guys

ilike2eatricers

Pretty strange. Are you sure all the threads are not damaged? Do you have those crescent shaped plates (dont know the correct term) on there?

Digi7ech

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Yeah I have those. The threading isn't damaged. It threads fine. It's just that the bolts have been removed a few times so they move freely(not frozen in like normal)