05-29-2014, 03:06 PM
Does anyone know where to purchase a WGA for the IHI? I cannot find a listing.
I bought the car with 63K 6 months ago. The car never saw a winter but was never maintained either. No sign of grease on that pivot. It looks prone to rust and heat problems.
I have put 2000 miles on the car since I went through and tuned it up. The turbo was spooling to 15lbs max. I hadn't been driving the car much and I went to take it out last week and the overboost buzzer chimed in. The pivot was seized.
I treated it repeatedly with PB Blaster for a few days, and I managed to get an oxygen sensor socket over the waste gate lever. I started moving it back and forth slowly but it ended up snapping.
It appears I can get the WGA off the turbo without taking the turbo off the car, so I'm looking for a new WGA, assuming that the waste gate lever has a hole in in, and the WGA arm is what has the pivot and C clip on it.
Thanks in advance.
In the mean time I have to say the bird is pretty fun with the non-turbo four and the 5 speed.
I bought the car with 63K 6 months ago. The car never saw a winter but was never maintained either. No sign of grease on that pivot. It looks prone to rust and heat problems.
I have put 2000 miles on the car since I went through and tuned it up. The turbo was spooling to 15lbs max. I hadn't been driving the car much and I went to take it out last week and the overboost buzzer chimed in. The pivot was seized.
I treated it repeatedly with PB Blaster for a few days, and I managed to get an oxygen sensor socket over the waste gate lever. I started moving it back and forth slowly but it ended up snapping.
It appears I can get the WGA off the turbo without taking the turbo off the car, so I'm looking for a new WGA, assuming that the waste gate lever has a hole in in, and the WGA arm is what has the pivot and C clip on it.
Thanks in advance.
In the mean time I have to say the bird is pretty fun with the non-turbo four and the 5 speed.