Broken oil fitting
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Broken oil fitting
So I broke an oil fitting the other day. Leaking from the pass side. Figured it was my turbo oil line. Turns out I broke a 1/8" pipe nipple. The oil feed setup goes BPT - 1/8" NPT adapter, nipple, tee, OP sender and turbo oil line. Must have been too much weight / vibration for the brass fitting. Here's pics of the fix....
Should take the stress off the fittings.
--Alex
Should take the stress off the fittings.
--Alex
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I blew my SR20DET up by having cheap brass Tfittings. It snapped and i still drove it for a little bit... fixed it and a week later blew the motor up when i was burning out because the bearings were FUCKED. I like your fix, but my advice is get the tunertoys one..its steel. Once u loose oil pressure, the only thing you can do is pray that it didnt do damage.
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Brass is just fine. Cheap works great. EXCEPT into an engine block. Anything other than steel will break there. Put a steel fitting in there - like this one - and it will work just fine. Mine works fine.
Stephanie
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