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My rocker cover gasket (often over looked) leaked a little oil down the turbo side of the block, this oil reached the turbo manifold fasteners and loosened them and caused the gasket to leak. I was down on power for ages but could never figure out why.

I don't think oil will cause nuts to loosen.. if that were the case I better re-check all ARP head studs, because I used ARP lube to fasten up the nuts.

Arp studs are not the same as turbo nuts

WD40 will free up the nuts but spray it on studs and it'll do nothing due to the high torque

The turbo studs that had oil (from the rocker cover) were loose, the oil even reached to inside the thread

The nuts that were dry were perfectly tight

Come on! This is just ludicrous.

Sure oil helps free them but the oil is not going to undo your bolts. That is done by vibration and if there is that much vibration to cause them to loosen up quickly then you have bigger things to worry about.

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