ive never seen this.. the gasket between the wastegate and the manifold fried and exhaust gas was leaking past it...

has anyone ever heard/seen this and know what to do beside s replacing the gasket?

 

it happened to me before just get a new one

 

vband is where its at

But yes you can just buy a replacement gasket. Checkout cheapturbo.com, atpturbo.com, slowboyracing.com....

Or just go to a local shop and if they do a lot of turbo work they should def have one.

 

if youre running the 38mm they are pretty standard,

race gas tends to eat them up.

slowboyracing has copper and ss ones i believe.

we've had good luck with them

cb

 

I think turbonetics makes one with a solid metal ring surrounded by the regular gasket material. I blew the regular ones out but not that one.

 

are you sure you had the wastegate bolts tight on both sides? A little gap from improper tension on the mounting bolts will fry the gasket rather quickly.

 

they were tight, they were hard as hell to get off

 

I'm assuming it's the 38mm Tial, if so, get the turbonetics gasket it has a fire ring and you won't have an issue with that one.

 

I did :[

 

very common problem with the 35/38mm wg.
we actually dont use a gasket on them at all. high temp copper sealant

 

i don't use anything and my 38mm seals fine with no gasket had a friend tell me to do that...

 

thanks guys, i got another gasket and tightened it up differntly, tightend up the wastegate to the mani. first and then to the dump

 

I don't believe you need a gasket for this wastegate. I was under the impression that the silver metal ring was the gasket.

 

You are correct, I don't use one on my GTi and it see's 30 psi almost all the time

 

Tial suggests not using a gasket at all if it blows out as long as your using a tial flange to mount the gate to. if you want to be extra precautious, try some copper spray