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Dec 24, 2011 | 07:33 PM

Wicked69

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What's the trick?

I have 2.5" turbo inlets and therefore bought 2.5" t-bolt clamps. For the life of me I cannot get them on no matter how loose I get them. Is there a trick or should I have gotten a half a size bigger T bolt clamps. I also tried my 3" intake pipe and coudln't get the 3" T bolt clamps on.

Any suggestions would be great. I am using them to hold on the silicone couplers for the turbo's and throttle body. I did put a very small bead around the ends of the pipe to hold the coupler. The coupler fits no problem but the T bolt doesn't.

Dec 24, 2011 | 08:38 PM

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I don't know if this is your situation, but when I was ordering 3.5" ID clamps there were two to pick from. One was for black rubber and the other was for silicone. I'll take a look and make sure what I just said is not just babble. Are your joints black rubber by any chance?

Just looked, check this link out.

http://intakehoses.com/Merchant2/mer...gory_Code=TBC5

Dec 24, 2011 | 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Droptopws6

That's interesting. WTF. You would think if using 3" pipe and coupler whether silicone or rubber it would still have enough slack to use either. I am using silicone and rubber. I purchased mine from a hardware store that sales everything. I am just going to exchange them out and get a 1/4 size bigger. Surely they will still torque down. So I will get a 2.75 for the 2.5's and get 3.25 for the 3" pipe. What sucks is I am ready to assemble and fire this thing. Wasn't expecting this. Guess, I will have to wait until monday. Thank you for posting that though. I was feeling pretty stupid trying to figure out why I couldn't get it to go on. No way it should be that difficult. The bead around the edges are going to make it a little bigger so a 1/4" bigger size will hopefully do the trick.