13-06-2014, 06:17 PM
Another productive day. Managed to get the pipe off the turbo in the end. There is a nut behind the intake elbow holding it, as you can see in the photo (not my engine) below (the nut is just underneath the elbow).
![[Image: HDiEngine_zpsd7e782e8.jpg]](http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/p501/Alan_M77/HDiEngine_zpsd7e782e8.jpg)
Took the nut off and the pipe practically fell off. I would've expected the rubber seal to offer a bit more resistance to coming off. Anyways, a quick inspection of the turbo showed no signs of oily deposits inside, thank Christ. The intake elbow was looking gunk too so took that off as well which revealed.......
![[Image: 20140613_105723_zps0a15c10f.jpg]](http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/p501/Alan_M77/20140613_105723_zps0a15c10f.jpg)
Oily gunk! Is there meant to be a gasket on the EGR pipe? This is my chance to blank the bloody thing anyway.
Plan is to order a new turbo seal, couple of decent jubilee clips (Mikalor), a few gaskets and knock up a blanking plate at work Sunday night. Just finished putting the new VTS struts/wishbones/TREs/Droplinks/fr.ARB and it looks the tits. Just got to sort the seals etc out and it'll be MOT time.
Took the nut off and the pipe practically fell off. I would've expected the rubber seal to offer a bit more resistance to coming off. Anyways, a quick inspection of the turbo showed no signs of oily deposits inside, thank Christ. The intake elbow was looking gunk too so took that off as well which revealed.......
Oily gunk! Is there meant to be a gasket on the EGR pipe? This is my chance to blank the bloody thing anyway.
Plan is to order a new turbo seal, couple of decent jubilee clips (Mikalor), a few gaskets and knock up a blanking plate at work Sunday night. Just finished putting the new VTS struts/wishbones/TREs/Droplinks/fr.ARB and it looks the tits. Just got to sort the seals etc out and it'll be MOT time.