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hey guys girls

my mates F6's turbo started ratteling the other day, so had a look and notice a few loos bolts that seem to help connect the exhaust housing to the centre cartridge where the iol and water feeds are,

we have since replaced 4 of the 6 bolts and turbo seems to be fine

the bottom two bolt i couldnt get too, one is missing completly and the other that is near the oil drain appears to be snapped as i tediously tightened mm at a time (killied me) only to realise after about half an hour it was making no progress,

obviously leaving the turbo in this way is not going to be good, however my mate has started driving it again.. and the rattle has gone and seems to be running fine

also i took the oil and water feeds off to access some of the bolts. im hoping i put them back on properly

i lined the hole up in the bolt with the feed line, seemed to be common sense, is this right??? please say yes

so after all that. should i advise him to stop driving get the turbo off to a specialist to get checked out, or justget the turbo off and try replace the missing bolt and do something with the one that seems to be snapped

i have actually already said if it was my car i wouldnt be driving it, but some ppl cant be told

help would be great, thanks dan

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