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Loose bolts - should I worry?

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amrbose14

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I discovered that two bolts pictured here, near to the wastegate and I think on the clutch housing, were loose! Free to rotate with finger tip pressure.

What do they do? How tight are they supposed to be? Should I worry?

Chris
87 220t
 
Hi ambrose. If they are not causing you any grief by being slack then the chances are they are not critical, but there are experts here that will put us both straight, but like any fastener, and with Porches reknowned engineering prowess in mind, the bolts must be there for some reaason. I would spray a bit of plus gas or wurth thread releasing fluid up there, remove the bolts completely clean the threads and refit with a dollop of coppaslip and pull them up tight. If they are 1O mm blots in steel, the caliper bolts go 45 or 55 don't they, so you should be safe with 40 ft/lb but if in alloy then I don't know.
 
I think there for the heat sheild which it looks like your missing. There's not a heat shiled on n/a 944 here but there is on the turbo due to heat from waste gate
 
That might be good, though I'm guessing the cost of the postage might be a large proportion of the value of the shield.

Chris
 
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