What did you do with your GMT400 today...or yesterday....

[Big T]

I used a die grinder with a scotchbright type pad to clean these two up. Will only use one on the reassembly and save the other for who knows what later.

I’ve lost the turbo nuts before. Might consider using locking nuts, not the nylock type. Also blue loctite.

 

[dbrannon79]

when going back together with the turbo, use a tiny smear of red RTV on both sides of the inner lip of that metal gasket. the inner lip should have a bump like a bead roll that gets smashed when it's bolted down. not much of a seal when the surfaces aren't perfectly flat to each other. the RTV will seal that up well and last, also not be squished out, that bump will capture it and use it like a rubber seal except for the red RTV will handle the heat.