[Vwdiesel] [VW-TDI] Loose Boost Pipe

[Tad]

If it's the one I'm thinking of, that connection is both a PITA to access
and easy to get on crooked, which might explain it coming apart... once I
finally got mine together properly it has stayed together for quite a long
time.


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dave Cook <davevw at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Yesterday when I romped on the accelerator as a little joke, it blew one
> of the pipes off!  It was the connection at the bottom of the fender, the
> pipe from the turbo to the intercooler.  The connection with the spring
> clip that holds it together.
>
> I had very little power and was blowing a lot of smoke but made it to the
> destination where I pushed the connection together hoping it would hold.
>
> Unfortunately, it came open again, though the two parts of the pipes were
> pushed together for the ride home, insted of being wide open.  So there was
> some positive pressure to the manifold, with a gigantic leak.
>
> I put it back together this morning and the drive to work was OK.  Just
> wondering if that clip connection is a known weak spot, or if I should
> assume that I might not have gotten the clip 100% on when I replaced the
> alternator pulley a couple months ago and spirited driving with a high load
> caused the boost to finally go high enough to push it apart?
>
> Dave Cook
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