AKSSS Posted January 11, 2009 Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 Any ideas on this one. First I live in North Pole, Ak. It is like 40 below today. Yesterday my wastegate froze up. I think it was from the water in the exhaust getting into the wg. I pulled up and just barely stepped on the throttle and say like 15 pounds of boost. Woah! I normally don't put any boost on the turbo in the winter(ok sometimes is gets a pound or two). But maybe there is something you can put in the vacuum line to keep the wg from freezing? But I don't want to eat up the diaphram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbents10 Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Air brake anti freeze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnss Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 Ive never heard of a WG freezing up. i dont really see how it could in a matter of seconds after you fire up your truck the WG should be hot even if it was -40. the only way id see it freezing up would be when you shut it off and it cools down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKSSS Posted January 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 Ive never heard of a WG freezing up. i dont really see how it could in a matter of seconds after you fire up your truck the WG should be hot even if it was -40. the only way id see it freezing up would be when you shut it off and it cools down? That is the problem. It freezes up after I turn the truck off outside(normally it sits in a garage). For some reason it has a hard time un-thawing itself. I have to really run the truck to get it to unstick. I don't see a way to get air-line antifreeze into the vacuum line and keep it into there all the time. I don't know if you could put some type of alcohol sniffer on the system. I don't know if the anti-freeze would eat up the diaphrams in my wg and bov? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnss Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 That is the problem. It freezes up after I turn the truck off outside(normally it sits in a garage). For some reason it has a hard time un-thawing itself. I have to really run the truck to get it to unstick. I don't see a way to get air-line antifreeze into the vacuum line and keep it into there all the time. I don't know if you could put some type of alcohol sniffer on the system. I don't know if the anti-freeze would eat up the diaphrams in my wg and bov? im pretty sure theres not much you can do at all about the problem you r having not much will stay in the vac line that goes to the WG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKSSS Posted January 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 im pretty sure theres not much you can do at all about the problem you r having not much will stay in the vac line that goes to the WG. Well I kinda came to the same conclusion. I guess just no boosting the truck after it has sat outside for a while in the winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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