Air elbow

injected79

injected79

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I was just wondering if there was a company that made and aftermarket air elbow. The elbow i am talking about is the one the clamps to the bottom of the turbo which leads to the intercooler pipe. I have had 2 factory style elbows and they are made of cast, and the area the clamp fits around seems to crack after about 6 -8 months.
Does anybody make one out of a different type of metal?

Thanks
 
The only one that we've cracked turned out to be an interference issue where the casting was getting stressed. After re-routing the piping and using a longer boot, it's been fine.
 
I have thought about trying to fab one up but i dont have the correct tools for it, and i was wondering about the stress issue, but i have changed the boot and altered the i/c piping to run a long boot so it could have some more flex room, but still no luck. and i dont see where the stess would be coming from everything that may move/flex should all flex together.
 
maybeee when you torque up the engine it moves toward the pass. side and hits like maybe a shock mount or something to that affect.

Joe
 
turbojoe said:
maybeee when you torque up the engine it moves toward the pass. side and hits like maybe a shock mount or something to that affect.

Joe
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Iv have checked and in order for it to hit anything it would have to move close to six inches.
 
injected79 said:
Iv have checked and in order for it to hit anything it would have to move close to six inches.
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what happened on my truck, is when at idle everything fit well, but when the engine was under heavy load, it torqued the engine sideways but the intercooler doesn't twist with the engine. With the extra stiff intercooler boots it just put too much stress on the flange and cracked it. After I refabbed the intercooler pipe with an extra flex-boot I haven't had a problem in the last 50K miles.

Lavon
 
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