So has anyone got any good ideas? Found it a right PITA.

I attached the hose from the turbo first and tightened the clip up (this was feckin hard any better ideas?). Then put the short flexible piece between the IC and the inlte manifold, before threading the clips through.

Then did up all the bolts and stuff.

Anyone got any easier method? Kept getting stuck on all the other bits in the engine bay! To much stuff shoved in by Subaru.

Regards,

Mike

 

Welcome to the club.
I am (unfortunatly) a bloody expert on TMIC On and Off antics.

I add a SMEAR of vasaline to the turbo and the TMIC / throttle body parts, fight the thing into place but with the right hand (dump valve side) bracket slackened right off on the inlet manifold.
With the throttle body tube engaged (just about) it is time to crack some finger joints/knuckles and your masterful command of swear words and ease the elbow over the turbo using a blunt screwdriver (plasters to the ready)

There is a sweet point where it all s l i d e s into place.
I then get the right hand bracket bolted up and the left too, good and tight.
Tighten the turbo clip with the screw in just the right place, and then the two throttle body clips very tight. Finish off with the dump valve tube.

Relax

Tighten the clips up again as they will have relaxed themselves!

Vow never to do it again, oh, and you did check the clutch return spring was there/connected/tensioned didn't you?

The factory put them on before the engine goes in....

Pig of a job.

911

 

i only have the dumpvalve side bracket on mine

i removed the other one to make it easier to fit, its been fine for a long time (cant even rember how long it is now! )

 

I usually put the turbo hose on first and then offer the intercooler exit pipe into the short hose to the throttle / manifold, making sure that the bottom end goes in first. Usually the top part of the short intercooler to manifold hose will then be too low and sitting inside the intercooler pipe. Then use a small, slightly oily screwdriver to slide in over the top of section that is folded inside, inserting it pointing backwards, and then by flipping it over so that it points forward, lift the hose onto the outside of the pipe and run the screwdriver round the pipe to get the rest of it out. This works pretty well with Samco hoses, never re-fitted the standard ones. I just leave the hose clips loose but in place on the hoses and slide then back out of the way.

 

I used to use the missus hair dryer to heat pipes up then they go on soooooooo much easier with a little vas to help !

 

Thanks for the advice guys.

5 minutes to get the ****** off. 20 buggering about before i realised i had made the mistake of leaving the bracket on the RHS took about 5 minutes once that swine was off.

Took 911 et all's advice on how to bleed the clutch. Funny when I read through the posts on saturday I missed the bit about keeping the slave cylinder arm in! Read it again tonight and it jumped of the page, what a **** wit!

Now all I need is some miracle gearbox oil which fixes all the damage I have done in the last week!!

Thanks again

Mike

 

Don't heap any praise on me!
I got (almost) all I know about these bloody Impreza's off, well, everyone on here !
Greasemonkey is the wizz kid. Where is he now?

911.

 

The other thing is your posts convinced me to go the whiteline route! Fitted it all at the weekend but gearbox has but paid to enjoying it

mike

 

If you think the intercooler is tricky, try changing the turbo inlet hose without taking the manifold off! I tend to use Avalanche's technique - get the "y" hose on first, then ease the connection to the inlet, do the pipe clamps up before worrying about bolts. After a couple of removals (to get at the dump valve connection to said inlet hose), I can whip the intercooler on and off in not much over 5 minutes.

 

Put hoses in hot water before fitting helps thins ALOT!

/Jesper

 

Just use samco silicone hoses!

 

Having just changed my stock hoses for silicon (fitted a 20g turbo ) the silicons are much better to fit than the stock tubes.
911.