Chriselectrics
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As the saying goes "sleep on it".. So in the morning I woke up knowing exactly what I had to do. Jump under the van and managed to remove stubborn bolt one the bottom bracket. Attacked it with a nut splitter & chisel, got it loose and got the mole grips on it and ratchet spanner. Up a good fight till the end. That left the last M8 nut pls manifold stud with a bracket to the turbo. It was obstructing the last nut between the turbo and the exhaust manifold.
Found my pry bars and bent it off. Seized bolt on other end of bracket on turbo then became loose, but only after I bent the bracket. Phew got that off.
Then unscrewed the finial stud in the manifold. Had to make a locking nut using two nuts to get the stud out. After its was the only stud that did not unscrew while I was taking the exhaust manifold nuts out. Left the two nuts on the cam side of the manifold as I could not see them or work out what they where. so managed to us an Allen key to remove the clamp at the other end of the pipe.
Pulled it all out and cracked the two M10 nuts off the tube.
Then cracked the last turbo job done.
Now I'm at the apex of this job...
Bust the following tools
M11 spanner
M13 spanner
M13 ratchet spanner
3/8 ratchet
Small Laser nut splitter
Went down to Halfords and found a new laser nut splitter to replace the I bust as U was half way though the job. Paid £14. but they did not have any chisel's. So pop into tool station to get a chisel and guess what they had a twin set for £6 so I got the chisel and the nut splitter set and took the laser nut splitter back to Halfords saved £3 wow cool hay lol..
Found my pry bars and bent it off. Seized bolt on other end of bracket on turbo then became loose, but only after I bent the bracket. Phew got that off.
Then unscrewed the finial stud in the manifold. Had to make a locking nut using two nuts to get the stud out. After its was the only stud that did not unscrew while I was taking the exhaust manifold nuts out. Left the two nuts on the cam side of the manifold as I could not see them or work out what they where. so managed to us an Allen key to remove the clamp at the other end of the pipe.
Pulled it all out and cracked the two M10 nuts off the tube.
Then cracked the last turbo job done.
Now I'm at the apex of this job...
Bust the following tools
M11 spanner
M13 spanner
M13 ratchet spanner
3/8 ratchet
Small Laser nut splitter
Went down to Halfords and found a new laser nut splitter to replace the I bust as U was half way though the job. Paid £14. but they did not have any chisel's. So pop into tool station to get a chisel and guess what they had a twin set for £6 so I got the chisel and the nut splitter set and took the laser nut splitter back to Halfords saved £3 wow cool hay lol..