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Originally Posted by cosmogirl Well it has come to my attention that this may happen I guess by that you mean you saw my post in my thread , downloaded

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Old 12-10-2013, 10:21 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Well it has come to my attention that this may happen
I guess by that you mean you saw my post in my thread, downloaded my photo, and then uploaded it here

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Interesting. It does not look like it was actually leaking though, unless you cleaned it up. I would expect a lot more soot if it was leaking.

Sorry for your troubles!
It wasn't leaking enough to notice any noise or a loss in spool, but this is something that would only get worse over time. we just happened to find it before sending the manifolds to swaintech

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Wouldn't it be a lot easier and cheaper to build some kind of bracket to support the weight of the turbo while the engine is out of the car?
sure would, thats what I'm doing to prevent this from happening again.
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