hey guys i just did the clutch in my ea82 turbo and every thing works but the boost light on the dash dosent come on and it wont go in to 4 wheel drive also when i am outside the car and i throtle it manualy the wastegate dosent open up near as far as it did befor i pulled the engine any resons why this is happining ???? i arched the poitive for the alt when i was hooking up the electronics but i dont think that would have hurt anything any help would be great.

Did you forget a vacum hose someplace?

 

nipper

Sounds to me like you forgot to reconnect a vacuum hose somewhere. Although, if you disconnected the hose to the wastegate, your turbo would be making TOO MUCH boost instead of not enough.

 

Is your car push-button 4WD?

 

-Brian

The wastegate only opens when the boost goes over 7psi.

You probably have a loose vac line somewhere like nipper said.

Make sure all the clamps are tight and the intake box is clamped also.

Check the pressure switch unit up by the passenger side firewall. This operates the turbo light.

Is yours a pushbutton 4WD? Definitely check vac lines!

Yeah check above the tranny, I can almost guarantee that its push button (if it wasnt he would be considered a wuss if he couldnt get the lever in) you either forgot to put one back on or ripped one out when fussing with the transmission, its allright it happons to the best of the best, and vaccum sucks... anyways hope you get it figured out.. actually the if their is a wastegate issue it has to be vaccum, the only other thing it could be would be mechanical, but that would be a really sucky circumstance and im betting against the odd that it is mechanical.... oh and I just realized that I made a joke... hahaha... vacuum sucks... hahahaha I seriously didnt mean it as a joke...

My 86 GL-10 turbo sedan did the same thing, there is a vacuum line that runs along the rear of the spare tire well to a pair of vacuum solenoids that are mounted kinda by the wiper motor. Mine had popped off where it joins up to those two solenoids, but if that line is popped off anywhere between those solenoids and the intake manifold, the 4WD won't engage and the turbo light won't come on. You should be able to hear the turbo spool under hard acceleration, assuming your intake is stock, you'll probably have to listen carefully to hear it, but it makes sort of a hissing type sound (It's a lot more pronounced if you have removed the intake silencer)

yeah i remember i had to connect those ones by the wiper motor once dont you just love when its just a little thing after you lost sleep thinking you needed to spend money aha ha ha ha well im in cali right now with my gf ill have to check all that when i get back to washington