Turbo teardown

This is what happens when u rely on someone else's work. The major failure was due to the usage of incorrect nuts and cheapo studs on the turbo to manifold joint. This was all assembled by the guy I bought it from. Although to be truthful, I guess I didn't know any better either. Oh well, its going in with all the right parts now.

I can attribute the total failure to the following:
(1) usage of poor nuts/studs
(2) lack of locking tabs
(3) exhaust too stiff due to poly exhaust hangers
(4) not using the tranny exhaust brace.

After the teardown, I found the following damage:

1 stud on the manifold tweaked, which stripped the manifold on the way out (retapping the manifold, however, was easy)
2 lost nuts / washers for the manifold
1 blown out gasket at the manifold (pictured above)
1 lost nut / washer for the elbow

1 lost nut for the exhaust

What's going in to replace it is:

new studs

new nuts

oem turbine locking tabs