OHHHHHH BABYYYYYYYYYY! I started this project at 4 PM today (Sunday) and things went quite smoothly and got the turbocharger out around 9 PM* and ate some supper and finally at about 11:45 PM I was able to pull out the old leaking crossover pipe! Hurray! Fortunately for me none of the 15 bolts in question (9 on turbo, 6 on crossover) were frozen tight with rust; the difficult part by far was just getting the proper tools to access them. Minimal blood was drawn, and I didn't even have to get a tetanus shot! 8) :lol: That's a smooth success for a turbo-car job in my book. I think I'm going to pull a late-nighter and try to get that heat shield off the crossover as I'm dying to know what it looks like inside before I go to bed.
I have been taking digital photos as I went along and you can expect a typical "TookyCat-quality" writeup about it when I'm done! I plan to fire the TGP on the new crossover either tomorrow (Monday) night or Wednesday night. (I'm taking the Syclone to the track on Tuesday and I'm set to run my fastest times ever, hoping realistically for 12.5 @ 107 MPH).
* If you imagine what it would take a normal "backyard mechanic" to do a job, double that length of time and that's how long it takes me to do something ;)
Okay, I did crack off the heat shield with a screwdriver (took about 30 min to break all those little weld spots). Inside the pipe actually looks pretty good. On the long side with the EGR port it looks good, dark grey metal, with little to no discoloration. On the short side, there is one small crack in the bellow. Then in the middle of the "Y" (across from the turbine outlet) the pipe's exterior is bright red/orange/purple. What is that? I can't see any cracks there, are those strange colors and powderly buildup from heat stress? There was dark sooty black carbon along a little path coming from the crack in the bellow but this orange area seems like something different, and the two are not connected, as far as I can tell.
I'll post the photos of that tomorrow hopefully.
There are no cracks in your EGR hose? If there is not , you are lucky. You might look more closely because they are prone to cracks, and Jeff can probably hook you up.