Turbo To Exhaust Manifold Gasket (standard Turbo)r33

[skyguy61]

Hi there,

Yep i blew the gasket last weekend at Wakefield, and the quotes for the work are BS. So i was wondering is it possible to replace it without removing the turbo completely after all we are talking about a gasket thats less than 2 mm's thick! If you dont know please dont reply okay. cheers

[turboedsloth]

err you have to feed the new gasket on over the bolts to locate it right. if you seen the gasket you would know wat im on about

[R31Nismoid]

Impossible.

Hence the pricing. Its a royal pain in the ass.

While your at it, you might aswell replace the manifold gasket (to the head) aswell. Its not a lot more work once the turbo is off

And should your car shit one of those in 6 months, you'll cry if you didnt get it done

[skyguy61]

Thanks Nismoid,

I hear ya about the 6 months down the road okay, but are you saying there absolutely no movement(impossible) of the turbo with the bolts out not even 2 mm's?

[turboedsloth]

theres nuts that hold the turbo onto the manifold unless yours has been messed with. it would be better doing all the gaskets at once instead of one at a time when they blow

[R31Nismoid]

As above

[skyguy61]

Thanks Turboedsloth and Nismoid,

I just had another look at it , i thought they were bolts and not studs with nuts my mistake yep impossible is the right answer I guess I was overly tired on Sunday after two late nights and working saturday before driving down........what a sucky situation if they were bolts it would be so easy. guess i'll have to pull it apart saturday and hopefully finish by sunday night for work on monday.

[Abo Bob]

It's completely possible. I have done it myself.

I even told you how to do it on sunday Carlo.

Also the manifold to head gasket is much more work even with the turbo off.

This thread

[skyguy61]

Adam,

i was knackered on sunday cant remember you telling me jack about it lol i'll need you to come over seeing you are on holidays j/k

im going to start on it saturday arvo.

[limpus]

I thought it was possible especially if you have braided/flexible lines...remove the 4 nuts and pull the turbo out slightly to remove the gasket and replace it...is that correct?

[turboedsloth]

yeah u can do that. you can even do it if its all standard you just have to watch you dont kink/overly bend the oil an water lines an bugger them up. thats the easy slack way of doing it. if it were me id pull the whole lot off an reseal it all

[Abo Bob]

No worries Carlo. Luckily for me I'll be in Brisbane then though.

Yeah that's it. I had to lever it off a bit. You remove the inlet and exhaust pipes as well of course.

[R31Nismoid]

I thought it was possible especially if you have braided/flexible lines...remove the 4 nuts and pull the turbo out slightly to remove the gasket and replace it...is that correct?

well, that to me qualifies as "removing the turbo".

Your un-bolting the whole thing, so it counts in my book

[limpus]

I see...well...in that case...its not so bad...i'll give it a go then...

[MANWHORE]

Ok, there seems to be a few conflicting posts above. I'll clear things up. I'm not contradicting anyone, just repeating what everyone has said:

If you undo the nuts, you can lever the turbo off the manifold, put a new gasket in. This is not ideal, because it may kink the water/oil lines. The lines will be bent and then bent back if you do this. It may be ok. Personally, I don't do this.

The better option is to just unbolt all of the lines, and then pop the turbo off the manifold.

Just do it properly. It's only a couple extra steps (takes me about 10 minutes more)

PS: use a genuine nissan gasket. Those squishy goo sandwitch aftermarket gaskets will probably shit themselves in 6 months

[skyguy61]

Thank you all,

I have the genuine gasket Whore, and Adam of course i'll take of the inlet and exhaust pipes hey this isnt a job i want to do after every race meeting i can tell ya, cheers oh the joys of things breaking