Stud for the Turbo Oil Drain Line won't clear a bolt on the turbo?

[Raven]

I tried to go the route with studs on the turbo oil drain but I had interference with the Turbo (Craig TE-60) on one of the mounting bolts (actually, an Allen Screw) that attaches the waste gate controller to the turbo. I even cut down the stud for the oil drain as short as possible but the problem was that the fitting for the oil drain line would still NOT clear between the stud and the mounting bolt on the turbo.

I even tried removing the nut and then the set screw type of stud that is part of the actuator mounting but when I tried to screw out the stud on the turbo, it broke my allen wrench!

So, I went to a stud on the rear fitting and used a bolt on the front. It's in and all tightened up but I'm just wondering if anyone else ran into this and if so, what did you do?

 

[salvageV6]

Mine wasn't on a bolt for the wastegate I don't believe but I had a machinist at work cut down a normal flat type bolt head even thinner.

Worked fine for me.

Allen head bolts stick up a lot from the surface.

It's always something......

Took me several hours to get things to fit right and hooked up properly, but most people change turbos in an hour or so.

 

[Raven]

Well, I know what you mean Salvage about those guys who can change a turbo in an hour versus the nightmare my project turned into.

The biggest beef I have is with the UPS not bringing the turbo to my house until Monday when it arrived in Lima FRIDAY! I would have been glad to pick it up but the tracking number didn't update until that evening - seems it arrived in around 7AM?

On top of that, they didn't bring it until LATE Monday evening!

Tuesday, I had to work so I was screwed to even begin reassembly until today. Then the delays set in.

I was putting in a new intercooler, downpipe, cold air intake and and the new TE-60 - all awesome stuff and I had the car ready to speed demon through it but it was one little delay after another! The turbo drain stud problem was only one of many - par for the course I guess but still I lost a lot of time with that crap.

And I don't even want to start in about how to align the monstrous stock location intercooler - by yourself. It took GMHTP magazine THREE guys and a freakin' lift to get the thing in place and lined up. At least I did THAT by myself on the garage floor - in about 3 hours though!

It's almost 11pm, and I've still got at least another hour's worth of work. I'm going to bed. Grrrr...

Sorry for the rant.