this is why you don't put threadlocker on banjo bolts
 

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don't do it!

this has been your community service bulletin for the day.

that sucks..

Ouch! Bust any knuckles when that sucker let go?????

Need a pedestal? LOL Shoot me a PM :D

Crispy

i did actually but i should have one here tomorrow from Glen. thought i had some laying around but i guess not.. luckily the engine was out of the bay when i was taking the line off so i didn't smash anything, the line twisted when i tried to remove it from what was left of the pedestal with my 1/2" impact gun in a vice, it has a death grip on there so the line, fitting and pedestal were a total loss.

w00t! Oh I bet it let go! LOL if I saw that line starting to twist I would have broken out the heat to kill that threadlocker. Either way a nice trophy for your wall of failures. :) LOL wanna see my wall? :D

L8R,
Crispy

oh i have a few, one of the better ones was a S4 n/a rotor housing with an apex corner boot seal pressed into it! lol

Damn it funny how some people completely go overboard with these engines.

My favorite is a single 10mm nut. Fell down an intake runner with the UIM off. I had to tear that friggin motor right down to the shortblock turbos, exhaust mani and all and with a small magnet on the end of a string at the end of a fingertip was able to fish it out. It was sitting on the spark plug side of the engine on top of the rotor face. I have that string with that very same nut hanging above my workbench to remind to ALWAYS cover those runners the minute the UIM is removed. ;)

but my apologies...I digress...that oil pedestal is a keeper :D
Crispy

about 2 months ago i had a customer who's brand new rebuild had a bolt sitting somewhere in the intake tract that worked its way into the motor after he hit the first bump taking the car and new engine for a drive. unfortunately it wasn't a warranty repair but i still did the best for him that i could.

ALWAYS tape off open engine holes, ugh, i have never ran an engine personally because i am careful but i have also dropped things down the intake just after removing it and i know your pain of fishing for hours..

another of the best was a motor that came in with a perfect indentation of a 12mm bolt and threads pressed right into the rotor face like it was putty taking an imprint. :)

Seems like there are a lot of unqualified hacks working on these cars...... we've seen our share of interesting things at IRP. In more than a few cases someone was trying to save themselves $300 and ended up costing themselves $3000 :(

This also almost happened to me. I bought a Jspec engine a while back, I immedialty tore it down and was going to rebuild it. When I removed the lower intake, there was a 14mm nut sitting in the intake runner in the front cast iron. That would have been very bad if I was not planning on rebuilding the engine!!!

wow. I hope I don't have to experience anything like that when I put in my respeed pedestal.

It never ceases to amaze me how internet mechanics find new ways to screw up their cars.

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i believe the previous rebuild was done by a reputable shop actually but for some reason this banjo bolt was on so tight that it is NEVER coming off. the engine itself was in ok shape except for the 2 cracked 3mm apex seals which luckily stayed in the rotors until teardown. i can only assume they used loctite on the banjo bolt, i have never seen one stuck that tight before.

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rotors turned out fine.