Andial951

Was out for a drive tonight and noticed the boost gauge is constantly stuck at the 1 Bar position. I still have all the boost so I dont think its a leak anywhere. Do the gauges go bad? Any idea how to fix?

black944 turbo

I know my buddies car has a bad boost gauge in it. So they must go bad.

snappy

whack the top of the dash real hard

but seriously. most of the times when the gauges go wonkey it's due to the connections going bad. pop the cluster out. and loosen the nuts/screws that connects to the mount points and use a very fine grit sandpaper and clean them up and screw it back in. I would try that first, if that does not work then take the back plastic track off and look at the 3 internal points those gauges are extremely simple build, could be why thy are not all that accurate, I hacked it a tad so it gives me true numbers "-atmosphere". the chance of them completely failing is slim, I do not think I have ever seen one that was not fixable with tinkering with it.

hosrom_951

You sure you don't have a leak in the KLR line?

It will constantly read 1 bar if it is.

Dal Heger

KLR line is off or broken. It will read 1 bar (atmosphere) constantly when it's not plugged into the intake.

Does the gauge move to 1 bar when you turn the ignition to run (on - not started yet)? If yes, then it's not the gauge, it's the line to the KLR.

Dal.

hally

Just search for the hiss with the car idling, you will have a decent vacuum leak with a broken klr line.

Andial951

Thanks for the help guys......KLR line was disconnected.