Proper way to index turbo housing?

[Dogmeat]

Ok I guess my eyeball wasn't very calibrated, but I just blew oil all over my engine compartment coming from my turbo somewhere. Upon closer inspection, I apparently didn't get the turbo housing indexed properly where it bolts up to the flange on the exhaust pipe. It was blowing from there

I guess I should have marked the turbo before, but the whole reason I hard it apart was to paint it .... is there a proper way to index the turbo housing so I can get it right this time around? haha. mess

 

[rusty rider]

I took mine apart to ceramic coat, I forgot to mark mine too, but had a pretty close guess to where it was. Put all bolts in housing finger tight and put on machine, adjusted housing as necessary to fit pipe and doughnut then fully tightened up bolts.

 

[Dogmeat]

I took mine apart to ceramic coat, I forgot to mark mine too, but had a pretty close guess to where it was. Put all bolts in housing finger tight and put on machine, adjusted housing as necessary to fit pipe and doughnut then fully tightened up bolts.

Yup, thats about the only way to do it. I'll try it with it installed as it, if not I'll have to pull it out to loosen all of them.

 

[Dogmeat]

I hope this worked, I pulled the turbo assembly, loosened all the housing bolts, put it back in and mounted it up ... then bolted the exhaust flange up, tightened it up .... then tightened all the bolts I could get to on the housing, unbolted the pipe again, pulled the assembly, then tightened the rest of the housing bolts .... I hope this works....Wont know till tomorrow afternoon haha.

 

[J almont]

Now I get it. (the whole cleaning thing) Bummer.