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Reply #15 – November 27, 2006, 09:29:03 AM

-agree, take a break from it. piddle with in free time. get the self locking nuts, ala chuck. me thinks the lesson has already been learned....its took me exactly one year to tear the money pit down, and just now is things starting to go back together. no hurries, no worries......

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Reply #16 – November 27, 2006, 03:22:57 PM

Quote from: 46Tbird;115729

The whole problem is the wrong nuts. Use the ones that Chuck recommended (and offered).

Lesson learned. We all do it. No one knows everything and does everything correctly the first time. We all had cars we "learned" on. This one is yours. Get it reliable first, and then buy something you can drive every day because you don't ever "crank the boost" on your daily driver. EVER.

I hope this is a lesson I can just tell you and you don't have to learn on your own.

First off, they were the correct nuts, they were the toplock nuts that Bob supplied with his header. So if they were improper, that was Bobs fault, not mine.

Dont ever crank the boost? I drove it for 2 years with nothing less than 18psi. Guess the boost made it unreliable eh?

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Reply #17 – November 27, 2006, 05:34:17 PM

Yes, 18 pounds of boost in an iron-headed engine is quite a bit on pump gas. You can probably get away with it for a while if the rings are sealing well and there isn't a lot of oil contamination from the valvetrain - but two years is definitely pushing it.

I used to run 30psi with a T3/T4 when I had a liquid-to-air IC, studs, and a 1035 gasket. And of course I blew that up. :)

Those nuts will lose their "lockability" after they've been run up and down the studs a few times. I used to replace them about every third time I had the turbo off the manifold.

Just trying to help. Good luck to ya.

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Reply #18 – November 27, 2006, 06:33:42 PM

18psi is nothing when 15psi is stock. Hell, iron heads handle boost much better than aluminum heads on an iron block. I was running 22psi for a year or so, on the factory headgasket. Its all about fuel.

I do understand they lose their lockability after being used a few times, but i installed the turbo, first time the nuts have been used, and they backed off. Fresh nuts.

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Reply #19 – November 27, 2006, 07:18:09 PM

Sounds like your nuts have that not-so-fresh feeling. :D

Hope everything works out for ya. I usually try to find a beer to cry into and then go into the garage with extra resolve. Don't let it kick your ass! Just gotta figure out if it's worth the headache.

You might try a V8 swap, it's not a lot more expensive or hard to do.. and might last longer. And that way all your problems will be new ones. :D

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Reply #20 – November 27, 2006, 09:16:18 PM

Quote from: 46Tbird;115829

You might try a V8 swap, it's not a lot more expensive or hard to do.. and might last longer.

I have a V8, thats what I prefer, but its not always the best/cheapest/coolest or whatever way to go. Hell if I had a TC, that thing would have the inline 4 and a Turbo. Everyone tells me to junk my S10 or swap a 350 into it, because it would be one hell of a sleeper...being a rollover and all. But Im keeping the 2.4.

Just stick with it. So be it if it is your daily make it how you want it, its your car, but please dont junk it. You'll make it. My Cougar has problems too, thats why its sat in the garage the last 3 months. It overfuels like a sumbitch, and leaks antifreeze, and misc. shiznit like that.

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Reply #21 – November 27, 2006, 11:45:26 PM

Another thing that you could do is mar up the threads with some a pair of pliers, just keep the end of the stud good.