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Old 2008-08-03, 11:00 PM   #19
sperry
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Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata
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Those turbo to DP bolts come off all the time. Once they've been installed, you have to go back after a few heat cycles and re-tighten them. I think I've lost probably 4 of them over the years. 'Course, I never torque mine to spec... it's too much of a PITA to get a torque wrench on the lower two... so I just use an end-wrench and put as much elbow to 'em as possible... which is why mine fall off a lot I guess... but I probably have my DP on and off the car more in one month than most people do in 5 years.

Just pick up some new nuts from the hardware store (get the highest grade you can get of course) or gank some from somewhere else on the car (those 14mm nuts are used in lots of places) and replace the less critical part w/ some hardware store stuff.
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