cheeseboy

Ok, so I now have a new DP, and am considering putting it on myself (access to garage etc). What I want to know is how to go about it - what I should look out for and perhaps some hints to make the process go a lot smoother...

Any ideas / help guides are very much welcomed...

Regards,
NEAL

APIDavid

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Cheesboy,

The worst job is loosening the turbo to Dp bolts, they have been hot and cold so many times that they will be really tight - as in REALLY tight.

I would advise that you get it hot and squirt wd40 or similar on the threads that you can see after taking off the heat shield. Once loosened it's all fairly straight forward. use a small amount of exhaust paste on the cone gasket between the dp and centre pipe to make a good seal and MAKE SURE that you refit the turbo heatshield - it is very important that you do so. You may have to snip it around a bit to get a nice fit but be sure to put it back.

David API

wiggy

sprayed turbo bolts with duck oil the night before ( last friday )and the down pipe came off on saturday morning with no probs and no skinned knuckels

Hakon

Cheesboy,

i found that removing the heat shield was the hardest part as 2 of the bolts had seized (and one almost fell into the OPEN gearbox dipstick filler...... open to easy access,, don't make the same mistake. ) Then sprayed wd40 on all the downpipe bolts for the next couple of days. I had garage facilities when removing the downpipe proper and it was a breeze,,even tough it had been on there for 4 years . Pretty sure its easier for us with lhd as more room to work in. By far the best mod done so far !
Good luck
Gervase

StickyMicky

all my downpipe bolts came offf soooo easy you would curse me forever if i told you just how easy they were (ok ill tell you, i cracked them off and then undid them by hand!!)

i belive most peoples are a pain tho

WUZ

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Cheeseboy, YHM

Russell

Mortywrx

same here sticky mickey MY95 uk turbo...sprayed WD friday night warm turbo took the d/p off and left over night then saturday morning new de-cat d/p and centre sec back on then new back box on took me 10 mins to take off and about 2hours to put back on worst bit was the bolts with the springs on cos i bought some new ones and they were abit small in length

Darren

cheeseboy

thanks for your replies guys! I will attack it this coming weekend at my dealers (he lets us use his garage and tools, books and so on ) we shall see...

Ta again!

Neal