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[filtra]

3 Questions for y'all.

One

I discovered a leak from my manifold so I decided to clean everything up and change it.

However I have run into a few problems mainly with the turbo (t2) bolts.

I tried to take these out sooo carefully, lots of WD soakage and running in and out. However I still managed to take off a thread on each of the shorter bolts, oddly both in the sameish place.

Unfortunately my local Ford parts department were only able to sauce me long ones, and these cost, wait for it..... £18 each! Unfortunately I don't have a mate called Dave who works for Ford and can get everything in life on the cheap.

I'm just a regular pleb so can any one help? I don't want to have to buy these long ones, cut them down and thread them.

Are there alternate things I can use, anyone got spares?





Two

Surface all rubbed down nicely (thanks automotivedeath_cod for advice on that). However these new fanimold studs are different from the old ones. I've tightened them in securely with a ratched no excessive force or anything though, is that right or do they need to be torqued up the same as the nuts?





Three

Discovered this crack looking down the exhaust housing (manifold side) anything to be concerned about?



Thanks in advance

Fil

[jayrs]

right in reverse,

3, dont worry about the crack it happens to near all of them

2, wind the studs in till they stop/are tight thats good enough, but epect the studs to come out when you try and get the nut off, not a problem though, in fact i like it that way as it dont mean pulling the manifold about to get it off the studs

1, yeah the turbo bolts are expensive, i bought some the other year but it was £18 for the 3 so the fiord guy has ripped you off, or fords have put the price right up, which is prob the case.

dont waste time trying to cut the bolts down, there hard, i would say, if you cant source short ones, run a die up the bolt and clear the thread.
you could use high tensile bolts if the shorted ones cant be got

[filtra]

Always rely on Jay

Yeah old studs came out rather than the nuts, apart from the locating stud!

I'll try and source some high tensile shorter jobbies i think. Technical term that