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claine650 03-21-2015 02:17 PM

T28 Turbo coolant line leak causing overboost/boost leak??
 
S14 sr20det developed coolant leak due to cracked hard line from engine block to turbo.
Started as slowly dripping, hardly loosing much coolant, over the course of a month as it got worse I noticed my boost gauge started reading higher than before the leak started. As of last week the car started boosting to a max of 10-11 psi steady, every pull. car felt like an animal compared to before the leak lol. But as well as the higher boost came so did heavy coolant loss. Today, I pulled off the banjo to the block and wiggled the line and it just came right out, broken off on turbo side. So I got a bolt and washer plugging the block for now and another plug on the water neck to run without coolant for the next week or two til I get my braided lines. First drive after blocking off coolant to the turbo, boost now is maxed out at 5-7 (I think) which is good hopefully since that's around stock.

My big questing to this experience so far is, how does the coolant hard line from the BLOCK to TURBO correspond with a possible boost leak, or cause the car to over boost?

Thanks in advance for any insight or insult. [emoji4]

claine650 03-21-2015 05:08 PM

Well idk now, might have to retract thinking these things were correlated. Went for another drive a little bit ago and I'm still creeping just up around 10 psi, just not loosing coolant anymore. Might have small boost leak somewhere else I still haven't found or just aging wastegate actuator? Not sure..


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