Don't let this happen to you. Check your nuts.

[TurboBuRick]

The nut from a old turbo compressor wheel IN a new turbo compressor wheel.

What a kick in the dick.

 

[whitehot1]

How did that happen?

 

[TurboBuRick]

Well the nut from the previous turbo came off and found a nice hiding spot in the mass air flow sensor or intake pipe.

 

[BEATAV8]

I'm in the clear. Nuts are in her purse where they belong....

 

[NY Twin Turbo]

I don't want to kick you when your down, but.............
How in God's name did you miss that?

I dropped a screw into my passenger's side header once. I thought it hit the floor and rolled away. I never found it. I assume it went out the tailpipe along with all the blades on my turbine housing. Funny thing is I actually heard the pinging tinkle of pieces of metal tumbling past my right ear and out the tail pipe.

Been there, done that.

 

[TurboBuRick]

I'm in the clear. Nuts are in her purse where they belong....

Lol! Nice..

 

[TurboBuRick]

I don't want to kick you when your down, but.............
How in God's name did you miss that?

I dropped a screw into my passenger's side header once. I thought it hit the floor and rolled away. I never found it. I assume it went out the tailpipe along with all the blades on my turbine housing. Funny thing is I actually heard the pinging tinkle of pieces of metal tumbling past my right ear and out the tail pipe.

Been there, done that.

Man, idk. I can't believe it. Never heard a damn thing.

 

[NY Twin Turbo]

Man, idk. I can't believe it. Never heard a damn thing.

That's because your stuff didn't go out the tailpipe. It's stuck in your intercooler........if your lucky.

 

[JimP]

Sorry brother, that was hard to look at.

 

[gsgnnut]

Damn that is a kick in the cookies. When I can't account for all parts and pieces. And tools during a job I go totally nuts. I have wasted countless hours searching for dropped hardware that costs pennies. Today it was a 2 cent self tap screw from the silverado e brake retainer. Last weekitwas. A wingnut off the. Air cleaner on my suncoupe 455. That was scary. I was convinced it fell down the carb even when I knew it couldn't have. 1 hour wasted on that one. It was on the bench under the carb cleaner can.

 

[fastblackracing]

Well the nut from the previous turbo came off and found a nice hiding spot in the mass air flow sensor or intake pipe.

That looks like felony 1 assault on a turbo .......man its always something turboburick, I was changing valve springs on the car some years back and in the middle of it I got called out of the garage to take care of something and when I left the shop I instinctively shut the air compressor off........... well you can guess what comes next when I got back to it all of the compressed air was gone and the valve was down in the hole...... ever since then I always make sure the piston is at tdc....it took some doing but I was able to fish the valve back up by pulling the plenum and using a magnet thru the valve guide...

 

[TurboBuRick]

That looks like felony 1 assault on a turbo .......man its always something turboburick, I was changing valve springs on the car some years back and in the middle of it I got called out of the garage to take care of something and when I left the shop I instinctively shut the air compressor off........... well you can guess what comes next when I got back to it all of the compressed air was gone and the valve was down in the hole...... ever since then I always make sure the piston is at tdc....it took some doing but I was able to fish the valve back up by pulling the plenum and using a magnet thru the valve guide...

The best lessons in life are learned the hard way. we will pay more attention next time.