took off my turbo and manifold in 45 minutes!!

[sepulchral]

I heard chickens squealing last night so i removed my turbo and manifold off of my redtop SR, took only 45 minutes, second time i have ever done it.

The purpose of this post is to ask what would be the best method for keeping it so the nuts don't back off of the turbo to manifold:

Grade 8 Lockwashers
Grade 8 hightemp nuts
high tem locktite



or should i go to www.stage8.com
and spend $30 on four fasteners?



either way i have to wait awhile cuz NOBODY has the inlet gasket i need. not to mention two bolts broke off in the exhaust housing of the turbo :(

[s13silady]

those fasteners are pimp... this was posted a while back.. i remember someone getting them and never had i problem since... i took the easy way out, and LUKE tack welded them for me... thanks again dude. .

[mjjstang]

um why not spend 10 bux at nissan dealer for the lock plates, thats what I did, and I swear it only took me 44 minutes to do,

[sepulchral]

those lock plates suck... ive neer seen them actually work 100%

[codyace]

Allen head 'header' bolts/studs from tend to work best....I believe Hedman has them in the correct Nissan size...

[Blues13]

45 min?? That's pretty damn fast. You using airtools? I've done it twice and it still takes a couple hours.. oh wait, you mean just removing it right? Then that sounds about right.. damn, that reminds me.. got to do that this week too.

[sepulchral]

i just tackwelded the nuts to the studs this thing is never coming off, ill post pics later

[Carlwill]

It took me 5 hours to get the turbo and manifold off given it was my first time messing with the SR motor.

Here she is after we called it a day.

http://carlwill.dyndns.org/silvia/00001.jpg

Another shot of the tubo/mani pulled.

http://carlwill.dyndns.org/silvia/00002.jpg
http://carlwill.dyndns.org/silvia/00003.jpg
http://carlwill.dyndns.org/silvia/00004.jpg



Old turbo (my cam would not focus because it was too bright outside)
http://carlwill.dyndns.org/silvia/00006.jpg
http://carlwill.dyndns.org/silvia/00007.jpg

The new turbo (stock T25)
http://carlwill.dyndns.org/silvia/00008.jpg
http://carlwill.dyndns.org/silvia/00009.jpg

[MikeDeuce]

The purpose of this post is to ask what would be the best method for keeping it so the nuts don't back off of the turbo to manifold:


Safety wire
http://www.aircraftspruce.com/menus/to/safetywiretools.html

[kazuo]

The lock plates from the factory suck.

Esp. if your car is lowered and you have aftermarket front pipe.

stage8 lock nuts work like a charm. Or tack weld it.

Locktite and lockwashers wont work.

This topic has come up several times (with the same answers as above)... did you try searching first?

[sepulchral]

tack welding seems to hold well, however i could only fit 7 of 8 exhaust manifold studs back on WTF :(

and one is stripped for sure, fucking aluminum block!

[240KAT]

howd you get it pulled off so fast? Usually takes me a couple hours.

[v8blakdak]

last time took me 2 minutes to remove turbo and manifold and thats including the dump i took

[Var]

why did you remove the exhaust mani studs in the first place?

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The purpose of this post is to ask what would be the best method for keeping it so the nuts don't back off of the turbo to manifold:


I have had success using double nut method w/ SS low profile nuts.