T2 banjo's........no, not hill billies.....
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Anyone know where I can get some banjo bolts to do my water connections on my T2...

I've seen a few pics where people have used them but am struggling to find any...

This sort of thing ?. Whats the thread size ?

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

heres what i did, check the pictures on the netsnapshot.com site

? You need some 14mm banjos (with the sealing washers). I could not get the correct banjo bolts to fit the turbo so I made my own on my lathe. I acquired the correct bolts (14mm x 1.5 rings a bell but I am not sure on this) and cut them down so they were the same length as the thread in the turbo + the banjo. Then on the lathe I drilled a 10mm hole most of the way up the middle (but not through the head!!). Then in area where the flow comes from the banjo I filed a flat spot before drilling through with 8mm bit.
? On the side that is closest to the block I used a 13mm spacer so that clearance can be had over the hot exhaust side of the turbo. I found to my expense that the heat on this side is also enough to burn through the hose, in the end I used a piece of steel tube (conveniently the n/a metro has a pipe that does the job if you cut the end off it that is from the water pipes for the heated inlet manifold) that now comes out by the engine steady bar.

The banjos I used were for 10mm pipe; however I wanted to use 13mm so that they were the same as the original heater pipes. To do this I had to get some pipe brazed over the ends.

ahhh......... nice one greypride, sounds like a plan, although im pretty sure mine are not metric.....hmmm
will have to do a bit of measuring and tatting me thinks...

thanks for the responses guys

just do what i did, take you turbo into a fastnings shop and ask for stuff to fit!!

thread is 7/16"

but the tpi is different from standard unf. Standard 7/16 is 20 tpi and turbo thread is 24 tpi

water connections rich!

I paid pirtec houses 40quid and they made me some, they had all the parts on the shelf - but it did cost more than nicks method

oops !!!! guess i should read a bit more carefully !! lol

ouch, i think mine were about £4, i think ill have to see about making some up.........