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[Teg2boo]

I don't know how you guys install wastegate spring, but I'm in an apartment, my car is in the street and I have very basic tools.

I tried to figure out how to install the new spring in the wg and came out with this idea:

This thread is not about something extraordinaire or because I searched 2 weeks for this solution. I just wanted to share my idea...






I don't give more info on the setup cause I beleive that you are smart enough to figure out what I did 


I also found a mega hole in my manifold like 1/4" of diameter near the wastegate I need to fix. I "fixed" it for now with manifold cement at least it will remove the smell 

[turbob16hatch]

I always find it amasing people can turbo a car without owning decent tools/equipment and no garage. I couldn't live without a nicely equiped shop anymore.

[Minor Threat]

Do you not own a vice?

[turbob16hatch]

Do you not own a vice?

He's canadian, what did you expect? j/k

[Teg2boo]

My parents have a garage with all the tools I need, but I don't live there and it's 40 min away.

I can't do anything big in the street anyway...

Other than the timing belt I did last year 

What would I do with a vise in my apartment ?

[t_cel_t]

What would I do with a vise in my apartment ?

hold stuff

[Minor Threat]

What would I do with a vise in my apartment ?

hold stuff

This guy knows what's up.

[bigwig]

If you're poor/ghetto, walk right into Home Depot with your wastegate.  Grab a clamp.  Go find somewhere quiet.  Change your spring.  Put it back on the shelf.  With that said, C-Clamps are something you should have.  How do you depress your rear caliper without a c-clamp?

[dvst8r]

Obviously with a piece of pipe and the weight of the car... 

[bigwig]

Obviously with a socket and the weight of the car... 

[Minor Threat]

If you're poor/ghetto, walk right into Home Depot with your wastegate.  Grab a clamp.  Go find somewhere quiet.  Change your spring.  Put it back on the shelf.  With that said, C-Clamps are something you should have.  How do you depress your rear caliper without a c-clamp?

You twist them in by hand because you can't compress them like a set of front calipers?

[2slow]

If you're poor/ghetto, walk right into Home Depot with your wastegate.  Grab a clamp.  Go find somewhere quiet.  Change your spring.  Put it back on the shelf.  With that said, C-Clamps are something you should have.  How do you depress your rear caliper without a c-clamp?

You twist them in by hand because you can't compress them like a set of front calipers?

bingo....now for the front i rarely use c clamps. i just stick a flathead between the pad and rotorand pry its alot quicker, or you can use a big plumbing wrench

[Teg2boo]

Wait, my method take 1/10 of that time. You know that a wastegate is hot after couple of minutes driving around

The wastegate is on the car, not in my hands.

Btw, I when I need to do something "big" like changing bushing or do caliper job, I go to my parents house. My dad has for like 30k$ of tools...

I just don't want to drive 40 minutes to go there so I use my car has a vise

[The_Fatman81]

amazing use of scissor jack!! 2 thumbs up ;D

[runsfromdacops]

cool. but i just push down on the top and put 2 bolts in and then the rest no vice or bs like that. u got a 2bar spring in there?

[Teg2boo]

It's a 15psi spring. I can push on top or with my hands and risk to strip 2 holes or I can take 2 minutes to install the jack and do my trick.

I'm 155lbs and you need at least 50lbs to push down that spring. It's 1/3 of my weight. I can do it by hands (without my weight), but I would need a third hand...

Huh, where is you noob post sir?








 

[glustic]

It's a 15psi spring. I can push on top or with my hands and risk to strip 2 holes or I can take 2 minutes to install the jack and do my trick.

I'm 155lbs and you need at least 50lbs to push down that spring. It's 1/3 of my weight. I can do it by hands (without my weight), but I would need a third hand...

Huh, where is you noob post sir?








 

Your third hand is your cock sir

[Teg2boo]

I know, but do to a complication that I don't want to talk about, I have no more finger on my cock. Yeah I know it's tragic, but shits happen!

[turbob16hatch]

Gain weight pussy, it's not hard to man bitch those gates back together.

[HiProfile]

If you're poor/ghetto, walk right into Home Depot with your wastegate.  Grab a clamp.  Go find somewhere quiet.  Change your spring.  Put it back on the shelf.  With that said, C-Clamps are something you should have.  How do you depress your rear caliper without a c-clamp?

Fuck that. Buy it, use it, return it. If you're scared, put tape over the ends. Otherwise they'll return almost anything if you're reasonable/forceful about it.

[brine04]

Be more respectful of Domtar pamphlets, I work there.

[92CXyD]

Like the idea of using your car and the ground as parts of a vise. ;D

$0 invested to get something done, works for me. :yes:

[Lowerit]

Be more respectful of Domtar pamphlets, I work there.

Cornwall?

[dvst8r]

Be more respectful of Domtar pamphlets, I work there.

Cornwall?

Kamloops

[bigwig]

If you're poor/ghetto, walk right into Home Depot with your wastegate.  Grab a clamp.  Go find somewhere quiet.  Change your spring.  Put it back on the shelf.  With that said, C-Clamps are something you should have.  How do you depress your rear caliper without a c-clamp?

Fuck that. Buy it, use it, return it. If you're scared, put tape over the ends. Otherwise they'll return almost anything if you're reasonable/forceful about it.

If you're really poor, you can't afford the $6 to buy it.

[t_cel_t]

shit, i got a big 8in? c-clamp from harbor freight for a dollar. look in the center isle where they have all that ship piled on the tables labeled bargain or whatever.

[runsfromdacops]

It's a 15psi spring. I can push on top or with my hands and risk to strip 2 holes or I can take 2 minutes to install the jack and do my trick.

I'm 155lbs and you need at least 50lbs to push down that spring. It's 1/3 of my weight. I can do it by hands (without my weight), but I would need a third hand...

Huh, where is you noob post sir?

noob post? go f your self. i have been around since ohmt was started.

[ifly87]

wastegates are for pussies.

[Teg2boo]

Well, even with the 13psi spring (yeah, I thought it was 15psi) the boost only reach 7psi.

I fixed a mega leak in the charge pipe but I only gain RPM on spool. Full boost at 4k instead of 5500

It's accelerate "a lot" faster at low RPM, I'm sure I gained 30lbs of torque on the entire powerband by fixing that leak...

Still can't hit the boost cut tho... It stop at 7psi. I think it might be the ching chong BOV that is leaking.

It was doing the same shit on my last integra and its the same fucking setup. I doubt I installed it exactly the same way...

I'll try to pressurize it later today.


What is the best way to hook up the wastegate presure inlet? I use the nipple on the turbo. I doubt it can do a 7psi difference tho...