Well I'm coming back....

[mdost03]

Hey everyone, just graduated college so this next saturday I will be leaving Texas and driving back to Minnesota I hope to meet up with some of you guys soon after and get to know everyone. Right now I'm in a race against time though as I just received a new flange for my turbo for the oil feed as my old one was leaking. So I bolt it up and I go to tighten down the oil feed line and the thing snaps off into my oil line (WTF!?). Not as strong as brass fittings I guess. So I contacted the place that sold it to me and I should be able to exchange it before this next saturday, but now I gotta track down where to get a new section of oil line from. There is a local DSM shop around that I am going to contact and probably have a section made up. Wish me luck guys haha.

[tim]

This oil fitting you speak of. Did the threaded part break off at the base of the flange? It is a chincy little powder aluminum fitting? If so, get a banjo fitting, just ran into this on a turbo civic.

[mdost03]

Yeah it did break off at the base. I would, but I just spent like $20 bucks on it and if I can just get a replacement one for free, I would rather do that then go out and buy more parts to make something work.

[tim]

What I am getting at is that it will probably break again. You are lucky it broke on the install and not under use. If it is what I am thinking it is a cheap powder aluminum casting.

Either way, I hope it works for ya.

[mdost03]

It's the brand Function7. Not sure if it's any good, but the piece itself looked nice. I'll give the next one another try and if it does the same, I will probably rig up something else like what you said. I have to give this one back that broke to get the new one so he can get credit for the new piece he gives to me.

[tim]

Post a pic, I will tell you if it is the same.

[mdost03]

Here's a pic of the aftermath.

[tim]

Yessir. PM 9GUY9 and he will tell you how to go about setting it up for a banjo fitting. He is the one who ordered the parts.

It will happen again. When you tighten it to the flange the oil feed fitting pulls the threads away from the flange when it tightens down, then it breaks. Same thing we dealt with on the ebay turbo kitted civic.

I think he got the banjo fitting from Slowboy cause they had them in stock, but I am sure you could get one from any performance shop.

Good luck.

[Jakey]

Originally Posted by tim

I think he got the banjo fitting from Slowboy cause they had them in stock, but I am sure you could get one from any performance shop.

Be careful with fittings purchased from Slowboy. I'd read some reports where people have purchased fittings from Slowboy and they ended up being knock-off shit, just like SSAutoChrome stuff. Go take a gander at the Slowboy website and see if you can find a single fitting that has a brand on it, such as Aeroquip.