No Boost Condition - Only Getting 1.0 Bar

[Mike Miller]

Here's a link to a boost tester I built years ago.

http://www.blackfoot.net/~hlm5860/Tester.html

--mike

On 10/31/2011 7:41 PM, PeterBergin at aol.com wrote:
> Have you built a boost tester out of a rubber boot with a truck tire fill
> on it.  Build on at (look at SJM site) I think its three, if not E-mail  me.
>   Cost less than $10 to make and is a quick test of your intake hoses  and
> vacuum hoses, do not but more that 15 PSI into it for the test.
>
> Pete
>
>
> In a message dated 10/31/2011 7:42:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> pl510er at clear.net writes:
>
> Mike:   Thanks for your suggestion.  I've done that,  but absolutely no
> change.
>
> Adam:  I haven't tried to pull codes  before, but will do that this weekend.
> I'm going to make a home-made LED  lamps for it.  Hope it works.
>
> Thanks for the heads up.    Shin
>
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> From: Adam Gratz<adamgratz at gmail.com>
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> Shin-
>
> Sounds like the car is in  limp mode, or the bypass valve is stuck, or in
> backwards. Start by pulling  the codes, then start taking crap apart. Do you
> have a code chart? See SJM  autoteck if not.
>
> Doc-
>
> 1991 20v Avant with tweaker turbo and  suspension. Parked 5000 miles from me
> in Hawaii, someone come get this  beast and drive it before it returns to
> the  earth.
>
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> Message: 4
> Date:  Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:29:35 -0600
> From: Mike Miller<mikemilr at blackfoot.net>
> To: Shin Hoshikawa<pl510er at clear.net>
> Cc: 200q20v at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: No Boost  Condition - Only Getting 1.0 Bar
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> One thing you can do is to pinch off  the hose from the WGFV to the WG
> with a pair of vice grips or something. Be  *very* careful if you try
> that as the WG will not open, but if it gives you  more than 1.0 boost,
> you know where to start looking. Broken WG spring,  torn diaphragm, bad
> WGFV (but they usually fail with about 1.3 bar). A hose  can look  OK
> when inspecting it and can still be bad under boost. I  would think you
> would hear a boost leak if that was the case. Prime  suspects would be
> the hose that runs up to the bottom of the BPV or the  michelin man hose
> on the bottom side.
>
> Take the cap off the WG and  look inside.
>
> --mike in montana
> 91 200q Hoppen stage 1
> 95 UrS6  with RS2  goodies
>
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