The heatsheild is rattling its **** off and it's starting to really bug me now.
I want to rip it off and wrap the up pipe.
Does the down pipe need to come off to get the up pipe off?

 

yes and if your bolts are seized its a right **** to do

 

so if the down pipe and up pipe are off, what holds the turbo?

 

Theres a bracket that bolts to the head,that the turbo bolts to,which should hold it. The up pipe has a welded on bracket,that the heat shields bolt to.I had to cut this off,as the up pipe was too big to remove with it on.

 

Cool, i had visions of oil and water pipes and every thing coming off the turbo for the sake of an annoying rattle!

Doesn't seem too bad a job then, i've had the down pipe of loads of times so those bolts would be the easy ones. Plenty of WD40 for the others now