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The turbo, intercooler, gauges, bov are sitting on the bench waiting to go in. Treadstone manifold is arriving next week along with the wastegate, turbo feed and drain lines. Still have to order charge pipe and dump pipe tubing.
I'm already having issues with the turbo drain fitting I installed. It is capped for now and already started leaking. It is impossible to tighten the bolts from the inside so i slotted the bolt ends and used a screwdriver from the outside which probably didn't get them tight enough. I used black fipg instead of the supplied gasket but i doubt it would have faired any better.
I'm pretty frustrated at this point and am considering bolting on a block off plate and trying again right next to it with a different type of fitting. In the pics below, i had to oblong some holes to make the drain fit. In retrospect, the 3 bolt drain from the bolt on turbo thread looks far superior to the fitting I selected.
For those who have tig welded a drain fitting to the upper pan, how hard is it to drop the upper pan? Maybe it can be done with the pan on the truck but that seems sketchy.
Now I'm at a point where i don't know whether to drill more holes or give up and go for a welded drain fitting. Not stoked on further butchery of my upper pan either.
I'm already having issues with the turbo drain fitting I installed. It is capped for now and already started leaking. It is impossible to tighten the bolts from the inside so i slotted the bolt ends and used a screwdriver from the outside which probably didn't get them tight enough. I used black fipg instead of the supplied gasket but i doubt it would have faired any better.
I'm pretty frustrated at this point and am considering bolting on a block off plate and trying again right next to it with a different type of fitting. In the pics below, i had to oblong some holes to make the drain fit. In retrospect, the 3 bolt drain from the bolt on turbo thread looks far superior to the fitting I selected.
For those who have tig welded a drain fitting to the upper pan, how hard is it to drop the upper pan? Maybe it can be done with the pan on the truck but that seems sketchy.
Now I'm at a point where i don't know whether to drill more holes or give up and go for a welded drain fitting. Not stoked on further butchery of my upper pan either.