who replaced their wastegate diaphragm?

[Wallace White]

If, for some reason, that doesn't work for you, you can remove the
wastegate completely from the car and work on it. The bottom side of the
shaft has a slotted recess. Get out the drag-link socket you used for
the power steering pump's X caps (everybody's got one, right?) and grind
it to fit this recess, and you're in business.

I did it this way, not knowing about the screwdriver trick at the time.

- Wallace
   '87 5kcstq 192k

Nate Stuart wrote:
> You can hold the base by lifting the wastgate diaphram and jamming a
> suffeciently large flat blade screwdriver under the metal plate behind the
> diaphram and twisting it a bit to hold the plate from spinning. Worked for
> me the couple times I've had to do it.
>
> Oh, and it can be done on the car.
>
> -Nate
> '89 90tq
> www.newtsplace.com/90tq
>
> james accordino said:
>
>>Can you replace this on the car?  How do you hold the
>>shaft to remove the nut?  How did you hold the shaft
>>OFF the car?  I have air tools.  I finally got my
>>donor apart without damaging the replacement
>>diaphragm.  It looks mint.  22k miles.  I'd rather not
>>remove the wastegate from my car.
>>
>>TIA
>>Jim Accordino