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How many miles on turbo? Any shaft play???????????

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I am pretty sure i have nailed down the issues with my car. Unfortunatly it looks like my turbo took a dump and i will prob replace the center assy and I have virtually no compression after replacing everything from the head gasket up. I am assuming its the rings since I now blow blue smoke all...

isn't protege garage based out of the chi-town area? not sure if ken does that anyway though.

^^^^^what he said but if its not a rigid or reinforced hose then maybe the vac hose that goes from valve cover to intake pipe near the MAF sensor????????

It was a remanufactured head from a company on ebay that had 1000's of positive feedback. Everything was supposed to be "checked out". It was supposed to be machined and tested. I did have a code for cylinder 1 misfire that went away on its own. Are there codes for individual cylinders?

Quick background, my sister in-law over heated my car and ended up blowing up the radiator. i replaced the radiator to find out i now needed to do a head gasket as well. i then replaced the head gasket, head (i screwed up the stock one by forgetting to prime the oil pump), t-stat, timing belt...

update......... i retimed everything AGAIN but this time i only tightened the tensioner bolt to just past snug. the car ran without shutting off in my driveway for about 30 min and then i went for a drive with it running pretty good. i did not go very far and will leave it running in my driveway...

OK, so today i dug into it again. I went through and retorqued the cam bolts to 100 in/lbs as suggested ealier in the thread, i retimed it again for it to run for about 5 seconds before it craps out. i tear it down and put the old tensioner in, retime it again and then it runs for about 12...

I have not had any time to tear back into it yet but I am thinking of putting the tensioner belt bolt to snug (just to see how it runs with just the spring for tension). My other thought is, is there supposed to be a washer or something to help keep movement of the tensioner with the need of...

Right now it's just a straight pipe with no cats no resonator no muffler and very loud kinda like a rally car. with that set up and a factory muffler a has a nice purr to it but not too loud. if you can find some clips on youtube with either borla or magna flow sounds the same as the flowmaster.

I could get 1 but I no longer have that flowmaster if that's what you're looking for. It had an awesome tone, not too ricey not too loud.

They moved pretty freely with the use of a wrench. But I will go double check that again as I am out of ideas.

Yes I replace my head gasket and head. I do not have the specs in front of me but everything was torqued to spec and I primed everything by cycling the engine over with no fire or fuel

^^^^^^ That is how I set the timing. I first lined up the marks on the crank to block, then the cam gears and then put the belt in place on the tensioner. once everything was veryfied in-place i put some tension (snug with some deflection) on the pulley toward the front of the car using the...

IIRC it is a solid block with a tube/pin for the bolt. The bearing is just on the o.d. for the pulley and belt.