Removing and Replacing Turbo...one bolt!

[Kurt Deschler]

You can also heat up the end of a box end wrench and bend it approx 30 
degrees to get in there.
 	-Kurt

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> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 12:19:30 -0400
> From: "Ben Swann" <benswann at comcast.net>
> Subject: Removing and Replacing Turbo...one bolt!
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> Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:33:05 -0700
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> From: Derek Pulvino <         >
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> Subject: Removing and Replacing Turbo...one bolt!
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> I asked a while ago if anybody had hints for removing and replacing
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> the turbo and was told there is one bolt that's difficult.  Well I've
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> dug in and I'm now down to one bolt.  It's the bolt located, as
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> viewed facing the engine from the passenger side, on the upper left
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> hand side of the flange attaching the turbo to the exhaust manifold.
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> Was able to get a 15mm open end wrench on it but couldn't get enough
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> force to budge the bolt...and I think the bolt is situated in a
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> manner that has the outside of the wrench hitting against the
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> surrounding flange when I try to turn it.  I'm taking a quick
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> breather to think on this, but in the meantime, any tool
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> recommendations to get at this thing?  Couldn't get a socket or the
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> closed end of an end wrench on the bolt.
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> Oh, and once I get all the bolts off I think I'm going to have hard
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> time removing the turbo.  I've got studs that coming out of turbo
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> into the downpipe, and from the manifold into the turbo.  Seems like
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> that's going to make removal a touch dicey given the 90-degree offset
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> on which these bolts protrude at.  Thoughts on this?
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> Derek P
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