Background:

Installed Malloy reman 8 mos. ago, anti-seize on all turbo/exhaust/engine bolts and torqued.

Symptoms:

Exhaust leak sound
With hood open one can smell exhaust and your eyes water like a ****.


I checked the DP - fine there

I checked turbo to exhaust manifold - fine there; no loosened bolt or exhaust soot


Now, I was stumped. Took a mirror, looked around and found a threaded opening that wasn't covered by a bolt. It's one of those side mounted bolts b/w the hot and cold side. PM me with your email and I'll send pictures as for some reason I can't post pics. This was weird. So I checked my worn out set: sure enough, I was missing a bolt and exhaust was leaking out of the turbos through this 10 mm bolt head.

Took the existing one of bolt from the bad set of turbo.

Voila, no more exhaust leaks.

 

that is friggin weird.maybe someone else can host the pics for you so we can see exactly what to look for.

 

i havent been able to upload pictures anymore too, so i just made a free cardomain.com account and put the pictures there and attach them here.

 

Im thinking I need some pics.. Please send to jme5001@yahoo.com

thanks

 

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeegyle/id2.html

 

 

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeegyle/index.html

Goto "My Car", right click on picture and download for closer viewing

 

cool thanks

 

is this bolt reachable without having to pull them out?

 

Most of them can be reattached but the ones on the inner periphery would probably require turbo removal.

I got this turbo off a wrecked car 8 or 9 years ago and the owner stripped the car himself. May be he accidentally loosened one?

It's really weird in any case.

 

I pulled the same set of turbos twice to try and find that leak. The bolt backed out on it's own when my car had about 50K miles.

2 yrs later the same bolt came out again, this time I replaced it without taking any parts off luckily.

 

Where is this bolt exactly located? The pictures are too close for me to figure this out