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Boost leak pressure tester. Lets make one! (Mel)

PostPosted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:02 pm
by bigBADbenny
My Throttlehapy/Kido tuned Lib is running great and I don't believe I have any leakage right now.

BUT

Making a boost leak pressure tester is really simple, would anyone like to assist or advise me making one for use by local members?
I'll dig up the how-to I saw on Nascioc or LGT...
Making it is easy, I'd mainly want a little assistance using it - so I had the right bits of the car removed or sealed off and so I wasn't going to e.g. blow out the camshaft seals etc...
I'd probably test my car for fun when the AOS is being installed and I'm cleaning the TMIC etc...

Just putting it out there. 8)

Anyone got an old pressure gauge/plumbing supplies/air fittings to donate?

Re: Boost leak pressure tester. Lets make one! (Mel)

PostPosted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:16 pm
by <GB>

Re: Boost leak pressure tester. Lets make one! (Mel)

PostPosted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:40 pm
by bigBADbenny
Well spotted! Lets see what the postage is like... :P

Re: Boost leak pressure tester. Lets make one! (Mel)

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:23 am
by 3rspecb
bigBADbenny wrote:My Throttlehapy/Kido tuned Lib is running great and I don't believe I have any leakage right now.

BUT
Making a boost leak pressure tester is really simple, would anyone like to assist or advise me making one for use by local members?
I'll dig up the how-to I saw on Nascioc or LGT...
Making it is easy, I'd mainly want a little assistance using it - so I had the right bits of the car removed or sealed off and so I wasn't going to e.g. blow out the camshaft seals etc...
I'd probably test my car for fun when the AOS is being installed and I'm cleaning the TMIC etc...
Just putting it out there. 8)
Anyone got an old pressure gauge/plumbing supplies/air fittings to donate?


Was a mechanical issue causing the 23psi boost spikes ?

Re: Boost leak pressure tester. Lets make one! (Mel)

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:24 am
by bigBADbenny
Not quite that high! Vbg1 is too accurate for some ;-)
So easy to make one of these testers I'm like, why not?

Re: Boost leak pressure tester. Lets make one! (Mel)

PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 7:32 pm
by <GB>

Re: Boost leak pressure tester. Lets make one! (Mel)

PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 11:29 pm
by bigBADbenny
That's the post that got me keen! :-)