Turbo removal

[George Blake]

Hate to ask this but search turns up a bazillion unrelated articles.
Taking off the stock turbo from the manifold. Heated the stud and manifold, hit it with oil first nut came off. 2nd one, the stud came out. The two toward the front of the engine. Now, none of these will let a socket sit down on them, that's a given. An open end wrench just upens up and slips off.
15mm crowsfoot and a 15mm stubby wrench I remember from way back. Is this still the way to go?

 

[SY756]

Re: Turbo removal

Hate to ask this but search turns up a bazillion unrelated articles.
Taking off the stock turbo from the manifold. Heated the stud and manifold, hit it with oil first nut came off. 2nd one, the stud came out. The two toward the front of the engine. Now, none of these will let a socket sit down on them, that's a given. An open end wrench just upens up and slips off.
15mm crowsfoot and a 15mm stubby wrench I remember from way back. Is this still the way to go?

Yeah, you should be able to get the turbo off with a 15mm stubby wrench. That's how I did it.

 

[Loeryder]

Re: Turbo removal

I use the stubby as well.

Took all kinds of ingenuity to get something on it to use as a breaker but there isn't much room down there.

I think I ended up using a prybar against the turbo to twist on teh stubby.
Now that they have been off 5 or 6 times they are cake.

USE ANTI SEIZE WHEN PUTTING IT ALL BACK TOGETHER>

 

[Bill Z]

Re: Turbo removal

Hate to ask this but search turns up a bazillion unrelated articles.
Taking off the stock turbo from the manifold. Heated the stud and manifold, hit it with oil first nut came off. 2nd one, the stud came out. The two toward the front of the engine. Now, none of these will let a socket sit down on them, that's a given. An open end wrench just upens up and slips off.
15mm crowsfoot and a 15mm stubby wrench I remember from way back. Is this still the way to go?

I had to go to a pawn shop and get an old 15mm box in and grown it down to just fit without grinding all of the way through. Cost me $1.00 and a few minutes.

Good luck.

 

[dgoodhue]

Re: Turbo removal

I used the closed end of stubby (doubled up with another wrench) on one of the studs and the rest I was able to get of with a closed end of a wrench.

 

[SY2932]

Re: Turbo removal

I ended up using a 15 MM deep well (the wall thickness on deep wells is usually thinner than standard ones) socket on mine after I grinded down the outside diameter of one of my combination wrenches with no joy . It was a VERY tight fit, had to hammer on the back of the 3/8" drive extension that I was using before it seated fully. I would NOT want to try and tackle those with the open end of a wrench...

 

[leroy]

Re: Turbo removal

I like to remove the a/c compressor and accessory bracket for turbos that have been on awhile. It doesn't take that long. Don't disconnect the a/c hoses. Just set them aside. It allows you to get a long box end wrench on the nuts.

Jim

 

[gjp]

Re: Turbo removal

I cut the box end off a 15mm wrench to make it a stubby. Also works good for the motor mount pads.