quattro Digest, Vol 46, Issue 15

[Ameer Antar]

I've had pretty good luck with an offset wrench. Not the cheap kind you can
only get on one way, but the good kind. Let some heavy duty penetrant (like
PB Blaster) get in there and let it sit. Heating the nut should help too.
Just make sure the stud stays cooler. I've had to take other things out of
the way like filters and oil cooler hoses just to get more room in there.

To take out the turbo, you'll have to remove or at least loosen the
down-pipe. Removing it will allow you to pull the turbo away from the
manifold, without interfering with the outlet studs and the down-pipe.


Good luck.

-Ameer


On 8/6/07, quattro-request at audifans.com <quattro-request at audifans.com>
wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:02:30 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Kurt Deschler <desch at alum.wpi.edu>
> Subject: Re: Removing and Replacing Turbo...one bolt!
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0708061558320.13345 at cs.wpi.edu>
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> 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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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 12:19:30 -0400
> > From: "Ben Swann" <benswann at comcast.net>
> > Subject: Removing and Replacing Turbo...one bolt!
> > To: <dbpulvino at hotmail.com>
> > Cc: quattro at audifans.com, 200q20v at audifans.com
> > Message-ID: <044f01c7d77c$6732af80$6501a8c0 at swansong>
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> > Crows foot and extension.
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> > Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:33:05 -0700
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> > From: Derek Pulvino <         >
> >
> > Subject: Removing and Replacing Turbo...one bolt!
> >
> > To: 200q20V mailing list <200q20v at audifans.com>
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> > Message-ID: <BAY119-DAV1462722C69FAD6C72369B6BEEB0 at phx.gbl>
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> > I asked a while ago if anybody had hints for removing and replacing
> >
> > the turbo and was told there is one bolt that's difficult.  Well I've
> >
> > dug in and I'm now down to one bolt.  It's the bolt located, as
> >
> > viewed facing the engine from the passenger side, on the upper left
> >
> > hand side of the flange attaching the turbo to the exhaust manifold.
> >
> > Was able to get a 15mm open end wrench on it but couldn't get enough
> >
> > force to budge the bolt...and I think the bolt is situated in a
> >
> > manner that has the outside of the wrench hitting against the
> >
> > surrounding flange when I try to turn it.  I'm taking a quick
> >
> > breather to think on this, but in the meantime, any tool
> >
> > recommendations to get at this thing?  Couldn't get a socket or the
> >
> > closed end of an end wrench on the bolt.
> >
> >
> >
> > Oh, and once I get all the bolts off I think I'm going to have hard
> >
> > time removing the turbo.  I've got studs that coming out of turbo
> >
> > into the downpipe, and from the manifold into the turbo.  Seems like
> >
> > that's going to make removal a touch dicey given the 90-degree offset
> >
> > on which these bolts protrude at.  Thoughts on this?
> >
> >
> >
> > Derek P
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