Turbo flange/housing plate help

Johnhazelair · Oct 20, 2015

Guys-

its the part on the driver side of turbo and all four bolts have come out. maybe from hitting to many mean bumps? but i dont know how to get the bolts back in as i worked on it for an hour today. The casing is slipping off of my turbo too. anyone recognize the bolt in the pic? seems to have two nuts on both sides. as seen in the picture, the black bolt isn't lining up and its hard to get them to. Thanks guys.

78f100 · Oct 20, 2015

The bracket should have 3 13mm bolts at the bottom of the valve cover and 2 10mm bolts on valve cover studs. It sucks to get the grommets over the hp turbo when keeping the tube from the low pressure lined up sometimes. It will go just takes some working with it, when you get it started a rubber mallet will help to lightly tap it on. Also check the grommets before you put it on with one that's bad, they are replaceable.

webb06 · Oct 20, 2015

Loosen the 3 13mm nuts in the middle of the bracket, one should have an extra nut holding the dipstick, then loosen the 3 or 4 10mm nuts bolting the bracket to the valve cover, you should then be able to properly align the seals onto the turbo and pipe and slide it on, or tap with a hammer if they're tight, as stated above if the seals are leaking or bad now is the time to replace them, once it's aligned and properly seated snug up the 13mm nuts then the 10mm nuts and it should be secure.

Edit: after looking back at the pic you'll need to see what's going on with the valve cover bolts that the bracket bolts to. It appears that they may be broken off or pulled the threads out of the lower valve cover.

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Johnhazelair · Oct 21, 2015

Thanks fellas. Yeah I'm worried they are stripped or broke. Seems there are two nuts on each bolt. How do I tighten/screw them back into valve cover? Or take one completely off to inspect it? It's a b*tch to get to so I may need to take out my radiator coolant canister

webb06 · Oct 22, 2015

Johnhazelair said:
Thanks fellas. Yeah I'm worried they are stripped or broke. Seems there are two nuts on each bolt. How do I tighten/screw them back into valve cover? Or take one completely off to inspect it? It's a b*tch to get to so I may need to take out my radiator coolant canister

I'd drain the coolant and remove the battery and coolant tank so you have access to it. I've seen only one truck that had broken valve cover bolts where that bracket attaches. And it was doing the same thing yours is.

You could remove the lower section of the bracket to see if the lower bolts are broken or stripped

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