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to make a long story short, we had to jerry-rig it with a quick fix until we could find someone with a real good tapping kit, and also the skills to use it.
I know how big a pain in the arse that is man, it's the cooling line that comes off the turbo, runs on the driver's side of the engine up to the head right near the big radiator cooling line, also on the drivers side of the head.
Ours was stripped out like a mo-fo... we couldn't get anything to thread at all... and our solution was just to plug the connection in the head, and plug the connection in the line, each seperately, so no coolant would leak... and then drive the car VERY SLOWLY and NICELY to someone who could do the work.
We figured that since turbo's used to be just oil cooled, it could handle being without coolant for a short time, and of course we never ever even boosted into mid yellow or beyond while driving the car in this condition.
We used a rubber plug in the head, with a nut/screw that you tighten to expand the plug so it holds, and we used a brilliant concoction of a nut, a bolt, two washers and an orange juice container cut up into makeshift gaskets to plug up the banjo fitting on the cooling line itself.
the whole setup was like this:
Bolt / Washer / OJ gasket / BANJOFITTING / OJ Gasket / Washer / Nut
If you can imaging what that looked like.
The orange juice box cut up and used for a gasket worked awesome, my friend from jamainca suggested we try it. He said down there people use OJ boxes for HEAD GASKETS and stuff! ;)
It actually soaked up coolant into itself, and expanded with the coolant and heat, and sealed up the connection so well, that even while the car was running we only had a random drip every once in a while.
anyways... i'm only posting this so if someone wants to try they can, in case of an emergency.
To you rj89, i suggest going to a real shop somewhere and getting this thing professionally tapped.
-gavin
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