Turbo support bracket.

So looking at my turbo, it appears someone, prior to my ownership, has removed the support bracket. For obvious reasons, I'd like to have it there. Does anyone have #1 a picture of what it looks like, and #2 by chance does anyone have one they'd be willing to get rid of?

There was an early and late version of the bracket shown here:

I ran into the same problem years ago when fitting a newer turbo on an older car. That picture shows the different return lines as well. If I remember correctly, the newer is on the right. idparts.com carries the newer version - not sure about the older.

Cool. I'll have to put it on the lift and see which one i have.

That is a good foto for comparison of the two versions of the turbo mount.
I'll add that the older style oil return line is compattiable with the newer turbo.

Herm TDI said:

That is a good foto for comparison of the two versions of the turbo mount.
I'll add that the older style oil return line is compattiable with the newer turbo.

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Correct... in the case I pictured above, I had both brackets and return lines. I swapped the return and found that each bracket uses a different bolt hole in the block. The hole I needed to use was badly rusted but a quick run through with a tap cleaned it up nicely. Later on I put a kp39 from a bew on the same car swapping around intercooler tubing. Nice how stuff swaps around like legos on these