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Aug 6, 2006 | 07:14 PM

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V-Band leak

I have an exhaust leak from were my turbo headers go from vband to the adapters were the turbo bolts to the adapter. sounds confusing but i started to hear an exhaust leak from the begining and now it is getting worse. It actually took me a while just to find it becouse i never figured it could be the v band. I have tried tighting it a couple times with no success. Anyone else have any problems like this with v bands or any suggestions on how to remedy this?

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are your vbands pressed or CNCd?

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you can put some high temp RTV on the flange.

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Aug 7, 2006 | 09:30 AM

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not sure if they are pressed or cnc'd if i had to guess i would say pressed.... I will try the RTV.

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RTV should work.
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not sure if they are pressed or cnc'd if i had to guess i would say pressed.... I will try the RTV.

There should be no question, a CNC machined flange is very obviously not pressed.

Are they thick and very solid with nice angles?

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There should be no question, a CNC machined flange is very obviously not pressed.

Are they thick and very solid with nice angles?

Like I said before I am not sure. they look like the ones on atp's website so i guess they are cnc'd

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