wastegate gasket is toast

[drfunk]

i just noticed that the wastegate gasket at the up-pipe blew. im assuming it wasnt on good enough when i first installed it cause it sounded like there was an exhaust leak down there, but i just couldnt find it. well, now i did and of course its in the worst possible position i could ever imagine. i dont really wanna have to take the compressor off to change it(which i dont even have a gasket)so im gonna take it to mcvays and get an estamate on it. then ill deside wheather or not i wanna do it. they might have some tricks i never even thought of.

[sperry]

Originally Posted by drfunk

i just noticed that the wastegate gasket at the up-pipe blew. im assuming it wasnt on good enough when i first installed it cause it sounded like there was an exhaust leak down there, but i just couldnt find it. well, now i did and of course its in the worst possible position i could ever imagine. i dont really wanna have to take the compressor off to change it(which i dont even have a gasket)so im gonna take it to mcvays and get an estamate on it. then ill deside wheather or not i wanna do it. they might have some tricks i never even thought of.

One trick is to use a few dabs of that "make a gasket" stuff to position the gasket in the right place so it doesn't slide around when you bolt things up.

I went through like 5 different gaskets on my header/up-pipe junction, I know how much it can suck. My problem was a mis-aligned up-pipe flange, which Vishnu was nice enough to fix by sending me a new flex up-pipe.

[AtomicLabMonkey]

Permatex RTV works wonders...

[sperry]

Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey

Permatex RTV works wonders...

Yeah but does it handle 2000 deg F temps? So far I haven't found a liquid gasket that could handle the temps of a turbo.

I was just asying to use the gasket stuff like a glue to temporarily hold the metal gasket in the proper position during assembly... it will burn off in like a week.

[drfunk]

i talked to mcvay's they said you cant make a gasket for that, and if you did it pobably wouldnt last more than a few months. i told forced ait tech what happened and asked to send me a new one. so now ill just have to wait.

[drfunk]

well i put the new gasket in this morning.. it took me two hours and i was drenched thanks to the snow that didnt show up for a month until i had a chance to do this. i got half of the old one out and the other half was siezed to the metal. i had to just about crawl into my engine bay and pic at it with a putty knife. after all the "brail" of the bolts i was working on i got that bitch installed.