Project Truck Turbo MkII, gathering dust

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Day 5.5:

left the workshop at 5am, lost track of time slightly haha

anyway, as a result of the nights efforts the turbo is now ready to be transferred to the new engine, I had to bite the bullet with regards to the seized oil lines and cut them, defiantly have to make a braided line now.

started off fitting solid linkages as ive had them for ages but so far have been unable to fit due to a massive bloody turbo in the way, so took the opportunity


fitted the oil catch tank and made a bracket to mount the heater plug relay on since the battery is no longer in the engine bay, made a new pipe to the tank to replace the scabby rubber hose


turbo and manifolds came off the bianca leaving it looking a bit bare and sorry for itself


exhaust manifold mounted up with the usual back problems and cut hands, replaced all the studs and nuts from the standard setup with heat treated bolts, makes future removal 10x quicker and less annoying


then the new inlet manifold and polished rocker cover


which lead to an interesting issue, I had loads of clearance before but for some reason the manifold now touches the brake servo, not quite sure what to do about that, anyone else had this issue?


spent a couple of hours re-routing water hoses and modifying bits with the angle grinder to work around the hottest bits of the turbo setup, now thats left to do with regards to plumbing is tidying it all up and fitting the new rad