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Water Return Line From Turbo

aaron1259

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I recently took my manifold off to easy out a stud that snapped inside the the head thanks to the previous owner. When taking off the turbo I tried unscrewing the 24mm water return banjo bolt and didn't realise the pipe was bending, when I realised it was bending in I tried to put it back into place it snapped.

My questions is, how does water return work? Where does it go? Also the pipe feels really loose and can move around, but I cant seem to take it out, does this mean it's damaged? I was planning just to run some an6 braided line I had lying around and just join the pipe back together with that.

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If the factory hard lines are bent i'd suggest swapping to some braided lines, it's probably good preventative maintenance while you're in there with the age of those lines too

As for water return location, it really depends on your engine. What engine do you have?

Duncan Grand Master

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yeah that's a really common issue when they haven't been apart for a while.

what car? I know the gtr ones are readily available from Nissan at a reasonable price....because I've had to replace a few over the years for the same reason

jjman Mentor

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that hard line connects to a rubber line that then runs across behind the back of the head/cam cover area and then does a 90 degree turn and connects to the water feed which is on the intake side of the head.

Its a fun job to replace it but possible. I remember that my best friend in this job was a pair of very long needle nose pliers.

From memory I even did I write-up of doing this job or commented on it in detail somewhere circa 2011ish.

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