Re: low boost in '87 5Ktq (again, sorry)

[Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>]

At 3:50 PM -0500 on 12/17/97, Sonar465 wrote:


> Well sorry to take up band width on this subject again, but of course when
> this tread was going around a few weeks ago my 5Ktq was pulling 1.8bar
>all the
> time.  Well this week my trusty 5kTQ is having a hard time pulling 1.6bar.
> The car is just about to turn 115,000 miles with a IA stage II computer on it
> for the last 45,000 miles.  I checked the top IC hose last night and did not
> feel any holes but I did not take the hose off the car, but last time the
>hose
> went I could easily feel the hole.  Could the CAT be getting clogged, is the
> lowwer hose prone to leaking what else could it be.  Thanks for the info.

To find out if it's a leak in the upper hose, squeeze the hose while the
engine is running.  If there's a hole, the engine dies or falters.  We
found our hole that way.

Brett

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