Troubel with CT12A swap
- Thread starter JASONA70
- Start date
Hit those fuckers with wd40 or some pb blaster before doing anything.
Other than that, just take it one step at a time. It's not complicated, just tedious...
The way I did it, both turbos came off together pretty much. Well at least, I had to loosen all the nuts and bolts on the entire assembly before ANYTHING would move enough to take anything off. Don't bother trying to get the rear intake pipe off the rear turbo. Just leave it on there. Once everything is loose enough, I had enough room to take off the front one first. that gives you alot more room to yank at the rear one. Also, don't forget when putting them back on to remember the gaskets between the ypipe and turbo. I forgot one side and wanted to hang myself. Had to take it back apart again just to put them in.
Don't break your oil return hose. It's probably a little old and toasty. You'll be SOL without that unless you're able to source another quickly. Get new gaskets for the oil lines on the turbo. Your old ones will probably leak if you reuse them.
One other thing that really got me was when I was putting everything back, I tightened up the turbos to the manifold before tightening the oil feed lines to the block. I couldn't get the banjo bolts to thread to the block for the life of me until I loosened up the turbos and did the oil feeds FIRST.
have fun... these pictures are painful for me to look at. :rofl:
Other than that, just take it one step at a time. It's not complicated, just tedious...
The way I did it, both turbos came off together pretty much. Well at least, I had to loosen all the nuts and bolts on the entire assembly before ANYTHING would move enough to take anything off. Don't bother trying to get the rear intake pipe off the rear turbo. Just leave it on there. Once everything is loose enough, I had enough room to take off the front one first. that gives you alot more room to yank at the rear one. Also, don't forget when putting them back on to remember the gaskets between the ypipe and turbo. I forgot one side and wanted to hang myself. Had to take it back apart again just to put them in.
Don't break your oil return hose. It's probably a little old and toasty. You'll be SOL without that unless you're able to source another quickly. Get new gaskets for the oil lines on the turbo. Your old ones will probably leak if you reuse them.
One other thing that really got me was when I was putting everything back, I tightened up the turbos to the manifold before tightening the oil feed lines to the block. I couldn't get the banjo bolts to thread to the block for the life of me until I loosened up the turbos and did the oil feeds FIRST.
have fun... these pictures are painful for me to look at. :rofl:
Last edited: