Well, currently upgrading to a Garrett from my chinacharger and I had a local guy coming by to buy my chinacharger, so I figured, better get the thing off so he doesnt have to wait when he gets here. Peeled back my heatshield to reveal some epic JGS fastener fail that I was completely unaware of.


this was a JGS Turbo T3 mounting hardware kit (10x1.5mm), was a good price but obviously failed me, any suggestions?

 

https://www.miataturbo.net/group-buys-member-discounts-23/trackspeed-engineering-inconel-manifold-stud-kit-%24105-shipped-46091/

 

Ouch, I just dont have it like that. I guess I gotta start that new prostitution position at target.

 

Machine shop time. One thing to try before anything else though, try just tapping on the broken stud in the turbine housing using a small punch or screw driver at the edge of it to turn it out. I saw a clutch pressure platew bolt removed this way last year and it was amazing. There will be a little burr in the stud still in the turbine housing, you just give that some very gentle tapps counter-clockwise to get it to turn and get the stud out.

 

that's not bad...next time a hardened breaks off flush let me know.

 

FOCUS!


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+1

 

Cam type stud remover will have that out, pronto.

 

I thought that when I had one do that. No good. Eventually sheared off flush.

 

Got it out with no problem. Thanks guys

 

Good to hear. They can be a real pain!

 

Lol sorry pic was taken with iPhone.

 

I would have suggested:
Liquid Wrench overnight and a big pair of vicegrips... but it's already out.

 

Well after I discovered it, I just took some Visegrip's to it and it came right out. Actually didn't even have to use any penetrating oil/lubricant.

 

2 things to avoid this in the future:

Use copper anti-sieze.
Don't overtorque them.

I'm willing to bet that the first one would have prevented this.

 

Were not talking the same anti-seize that you would use say on brake caliper slides?

 

No, this stuff will resist baking on at high temps.

 

Dope, good looking out I'll go grab some, hey man I got a new turbo too.

 

After putting anti-sieze on every single bolt I touch on both of my cars I'm a much more pleasant person do be around during and after working on the cars.

 

Will be doing this! I assumed that maybe I overtorqued the nuts when tightening? Thats about the only thing I could think of that broke it, the only part of it that was broken was the threads that the nut itself goes onto, it broke basically from the bottom of the nut where it makes contact with the flange.