Im Installing a Phat shaft 62/12 and the oil return line interferes with the wastegate actuator arm and the cool side discharge... What have you guys done to overcome these problems? Thanks, Jim

 

loosened up the snail intake and exhaust housing bolts and rotated the cartridge just enough to ge the return line to clear the wastegate.

 

First try loosening the center section to compressor housing bolts and the center section to exhaust housing bolts, along with the compressor outlet elbow. Try moving all of it around to get some clearance. If you can't get enough, you'll have to do what I had to do and lots of other 12V owners. You'll have to remove the oil drain tube from the truck and use a die grinder on it. Dimple it or remove a little bit of material, but not too much as the wall of the tube is not very thick.

 

You might need to dent the oil return line just a bit with a hammer to get enough clearance.

 

It was hitting pretty bad so I dimpled it at the actuator rod, then sawzalled it an inch or so past that. Will run some 1" rubber hose to meet up with the other end where it drains into the block. Pretty extreme sounding, but the easiest way by far any way I looked at it...

 

I used a hammer & dented the line on my 97' to make the line work with the B1, but it seems as though the actuator rod has been bent a little too?? Don't know how it got that way, it was like this when I got the turbo????

 

Hey whatever works! Whats the oil flow like through this tube? It wont have any backpressure in the turbo due to the dimple would it? By the size if the tube feeding it, id assume its not a high flow system going through there?

 

hehehe.

He said "Sawzalled"

hehehe

 

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