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Welp, the water pump job apparently didn't seal well, because it leaks. The shop removed the turbo manifold and identified the sources of all oil and coolant leaks, and will be correcting them. The oil drain flange is one with a machined o-ring groove in it, so it shouldn't leak, and the fitting that's on my oil pan has a weld porosity issue, so they'll fix that.
Perhaps, for once in the last 11 years, my car won't drip oil or coolant. We shall see.
The turbo manifold exhaust flange gasket was deteriorating already because the ahoe that made the manifold stripped a stud and didn't want to helicoil the hole, so it wasn't clamped down well in that area. People underestimate the amount of pressure in an exhaust, especially pre-turbo. Things need to seal.
Looks like we're actually flipping the manifold upside down and going top-mount turbo again, and redoing some of the charge piping to be better. Hey, it's just money.
Ah well, in a month or two, hopefully it will be running and good to go for a while. And with a whp starting with a 6.
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