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Old May 23, 2014 | 04:16 PM
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Default How close is your turbine housing to your oil fill tube?
Kb hot side with on3 gt45

This is the older kb manifold**

My housing is 1/16" away from the plastic fill tube...
I have the valve covers off in this pic, but you get the idea!

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Pull the fill tube off and just use the cap. That's what I did on my kbracing pt88 kit.
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^ Yep! Pull the black tube out of the valve cover, and then just thread the oil fill cap straight into the valve cover.
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Pull the fill tube off and just use the cap. That's what I did on my kbracing pt88 kit.
No issues with melting the cap? Or do you run a turbo blanket?
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ill be running a blanket on mine. i also took the neck off
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No issues with melting the cap? Or do you run a turbo blanket?
No issues, but running a blanket is a good idea. I've been using a cheap eBay one for about 14 months now on the daily driver, no issues. It smelled bad for the first few trips though.
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Old May 23, 2014 | 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by 98tdi
No issues with melting the cap? Or do you run a turbo blanket?
My ebay blanket touches my cap with no issues at all. Actually its warm but easy to touch and handle.
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Yeah +1 on the $40 ebay blanket and take out the fill tube, no issues so far
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Yep if you dont run a blanket you will melt the cap...ask me how I know.
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I'm running the stock valve cover and the long oil fill elbow and my housing rests pretty hard against the elbow and I do have a blanket on it. No problems with melting.
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