Well I decided to take the manifold off last Saturday to sort the blowing gasket. In he process one of the turbo studs snapped. I needed to remove the turbo so I could get the stud out which turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I checked the turbo and sure enough it was fucked! I honestly do not know how it wasn't smoking its bag off as soon as you started it up.
I got onto Pete at Demon Performance Centre who sorted me out with a recon in a few days, cheers mate!
Now while I had this stripped down I decided it would be a good chance to fit tidy a few other bits up, so I have taken off the metal water pipe, heat shield and dip stick tube, I have rubbed down the power steering pump so I can paint that. I also have a set of genuine hoses off a 15k mile car so I am going to fit these. I have measured up all the hoses and I will get new jubilee clips for them tomoro.
