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SovXietday
03-25-2008, 10:35 PM
Do not put the bolts that Tial gives you into a mild steel flange... well that is unless you like drilling the bottom half of said bolt with 7 different sized drill bits, finding new bolts to fit, and then retapping the threads and praying it holds.

I know this from experience, blagh.
james_ls
03-26-2008, 12:26 AM
Ouch.

Rebuild go bad?
igo4bmx
03-26-2008, 12:44 PM
wtf?
did you have the right thread for the steel?
Omar_MSP
03-26-2008, 01:03 PM
be careful not to warp the flange with bigger bolt sizes. hearing you said 7 different sizes, you could only go bigger so yea pray that it holds lol.
SovXietday
03-26-2008, 05:33 PM
Ouch.

Rebuild go bad?

Rebuild went ok, the turbo came off just fine haha. But for some reason the wastegate bolts fused themselves into the flange and I had to drill a flange width worth of bolt out. It sucke

Big James, yeah the thread was correct. I didn't have this problem on the log manifold at all, but they completely fused on me for some reason on this manifold.

Omar I drilled it as exact as I could and then just retapped it and found new bolts. Everythings back on the car now and I have some shiny new bolts on the wastegate.:lol:

Plus, 13mm bolt heads > Alan key bolts, I hate those things.