How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
I had turbo-manifold gasket leaks. Cheap gaskets.
I bought OEM Nissan gaskets for the turbo hardware. Tight as a nun and was cheaper, and less painful, than pulling the stuff off and having it flattened.
Not recommended for people other than Sunday drivers. Like me.
I bought OEM Nissan gaskets for the turbo hardware. Tight as a nun and was cheaper, and less painful, than pulling the stuff off and having it flattened.
Not recommended for people other than Sunday drivers. Like me.
I had turbo-manifold gasket leaks. Cheap gaskets.
I bought OEM Nissan gaskets for the turbo hardware. Tight as a nun and was cheaper, and less painful, than pulling the stuff off and having it flattened.
Not recommended for people other than Sunday drivers. Like me.
I bought OEM Nissan gaskets for the turbo hardware. Tight as a nun and was cheaper, and less painful, than pulling the stuff off and having it flattened.
Not recommended for people other than Sunday drivers. Like me.
I also use the OEM hardware from the nissan dealership. 4 bucks for both the mani-turbo and turbo-downpipe, I also have the orginal studs on the turbo and cheap autozone bolts.
Not a single issue with that area of the car, instead its my crappy junkyard parts (my replacement 500 dollar wrecking yard engine years ago is starting to show its downfall, and is slowly getting rebuilt.) that are slowly being replaced by the non-frugal new parts. Finally.
my only life lessons are:
light rebuild of a good compression checked junkyard motor is still highly recommended. Headgasket and valve seals were my miata's downfall last year, and it all happened when I was strapped for cash at thet time, so like every broke *** with an investment in a car... I parted out some things, and I regret it all.
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From 2007 onward I honestly have never used an exhaust gasket on my car. The manifold to turbo there was no gasket and then turbo to downpipe there was no gasket. Where my downpipe meets my test pipe I just cover everything in RTV and call it a day.
I second mgeoffriau. Brain sucks at surveys and statistics anyway, he hasn't factored in standard deviation.
There, I solved it for both of you:
Let me google that for you
There, I solved it for both of you:
Let me google that for you
well i got it torn down after work today and the verdict is hold **** how did it build boost. cyl 1,2 had small leaks, cyl 3 was fine, cyl 4 was a super huge leak and it was leaking where the turbo meets the manifold. looked in the ports at the valves and they are so gunked up its ridiculous.