paulzy

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Man, we just got done with a turbo install in my firend's car and the bolts that hold the manifold and turbo together always comes loose. Why is that? We are using both a bolt and a nut with lockwashers between them....Help us out. Does that happen to you guys a lot?

I'm ready to fucken weld that thing together

Arturbo

I never have that problem. As a matter of fact when I took off my turbo a few months ago I had the hardest time taking them off. Make sure you have the right bolts...

art

paulzy

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I don't, that's why I went and bought some grade8 nuts and bolts from home depot and rigged those up...

b18bturbo

use a little of the blue loctite with each bolt. Make sure you get the correct bolt though. It shouldnt come out. The top bolt usually does but not the other.s

AzianAvenger

My freakin DRAG GEN 3 kit didn't come with turbo bolts so I had to go to 5 Home Depots and find equivalents. I'm still pissed off and that was last year.

Yes my turbo was coming lose all the time. I had to retighten it like 4 times. However there is one bolt in the back of the turbo that is impossible to get to.
So basically I have 3 tight bolts and 1 loose as hell. Just remember that everytime you wheel hop, you potentially making the turbo loose and a loose turbo = no power.

-AzianAvenger

rtype11

make sure that you use atleast gade 8 fasteners and that you torque all the bolts the same amount - also you can use a dab of loctite red compound.

paulzy

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ok....someone said red and someone said blue? Which one is the real high temp one?

zip

Use the red loctite.

Adi Radoncic

How many foot-pounds do you guys recomend these bolts should be tightened to?

paulzy

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I don't think it matters how many foot pounds. You can even fit a torque whrench in there anyways.

rtype11

by torquing the nuts i know you cant fit a t- wrench in there but torque down each bolt like a four bolt wheel and try to use the same pressure on each.

Flamenco-T

do we just need to buy a set of bolts ? or nuts as well.

on my drag kit, the bolts is tighten into the threads inside the manifold, I dunno how you guys need bolts and nuts as well...

stna

BoostinDC2

i use either blue loctite or anit-sieze

paulzy

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there were no bolts for the manifold flange, so we bought some bolts and nuts form home depot and hooked it up...