Add PreLoad to the Wastegate

Brett Dikeman brett at cloud9.net
Wed May 22 19:10:24 EDT 2002


At 2:45 PM -0700 5/22/02, Justin Olson wrote:
>I'm going to add preload to the wastegate.

Don't.

>  How do you do this?

You don't.

>  I took it apart today and I'm trying to shim it out.

Completely, totally unnecessary...and dangerous to the health of the engine.


>  I read that you can drill threw to the cap of
>the wastegate, and turn the allen screw. Have anyone
>done this?

The wastegate is ONLY supposed to be adjusted according to the
procedure listed in the factory repair manual.

Brett
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