Waste gate actuator preload

[Remington92]

Was having over boost issues and when I put air to my wastegate it wouldn’t budge so I pulled the turbo thinking the valve in the turbo was froze. Got it all apart and turbo is nice and free but I noticed that the actuator rod was stretched out pretty good. Does this look normal? Or did the fella crank the waste gate down to get more boost 

[Evan]

I'd probably leave alone and put a boost fooler on it along with boost gauge. Temps would most likely be reduced and power would be up slightly. 

 

I'm not sure that preload would even keep it from opening. My guess is it has a boost elbow on it too. But is throwing a over boost code because it's not boost fooled 

Edited December 15, 2019 by Evan

[Remington92]

Well I don’t know what I did wrong before when I tested it with the turbo on the truck but went and put air to the waste gate and it opened at about 24psi so everything’s fine I guess. Wasn’t a total waste cause it made tapping the manifold for egt easy with the turbo off. So that’s done, big line kit with fuel psi is in, and I’m bout half way through with fuel boss install. 

[Remington92]

Ok got fuel boss all in and no leaks but fuel psi has me worried. I haven’t taken it for a spin yet but letting it idle in the garage for a couple minutes best I get is 8psi romp on it and it’ll hit 8.4ish then go back down. I also notice it’s extremely slow to build pressure. I tried unplugging the electric lift pump and it didn’t change so it seems to be building enough pressure to not engage the electric pump? This is read with edge sensor at the end of 5ft of fuel  tapped at the big line kit. Tomorrow I’ll be getting a cheap mechanical gauge to put on the line and see if it’s the sensors problem 

[IBMobile]

You probably have some debris stuck in the fuel pressure relief valve holding it open.  You will have to take it off and clean it out.  This is a common problem when the Fuel Boss system is first used and it happened to mine and others here.   You my want to install a 120 micron prefilter before the pump.

[Remington92]

I pulled/ dissembled the pressure relief and the bypass valve just to double check I did everything right and I’d heard the Issues  with the pressure relief plugging. All looked good. I’ve also got a couple of the fleetguard strainers ordered and were supposed to be here Friday. 

[Remington92]

Put a cheap pressure gauge on the system and I’m getting 16-18 idling and reving in the garage so I guess I’ve got to have a chat with edge 

[Evan]

16-18 revving the piss out of it??

 

How much at idle?

[Remington92]

16 at idle and it’ll get to 18 or so revving to over 2500. Edge got back to me and I formatted the sensor wrong so it’s reading all the values in half so we should be safe enough go button it up and go for a drive and work out any remaining air in the lines