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      05-21-2023, 07:41 AM   #129
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Originally Posted by datbimmer View Post
Hi fellas, I just found this fix, I was wondering was anyone able to revive turbos with this trick? My car is not making boost at all and has the obvious wastegate rattle. I was able to test vaccum and the rear turbo wastegate fully closes at 7 but I was unable to see the front turbo. Thinking of trying this trick with hopes that I might get a bit of boost back.
FWIW on my 148k turbos that rattled like mad spacing out the actuators improved my spool by approx 1k RPM (in 4th at WOT) and brought the boost from 15-16 to the full targeted 18psi.

They have since started rattling a bit again so it is only a short term fix.
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