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stangjunkie04 07-28-2006 05:32 AM

boost gauge stopped working?
 
This morning I was getting onto the highway and I went to gun it WOT and the boost gauge didn't move. It stayed at 0 but I could feel the boost going through the power band. It was reading fine yesterday at 8psi. Its a Autometer Ultra lite boost gauge. I checked the vac lines and connections and they all seem to be good, could it be a bad gauge?

mcmmotorsports 07-28-2006 05:43 AM


Originally Posted by stangjunkie04
This morning I was getting onto the highway and I went to gun it WOT and the boost gauge didn't move. It stayed at 0 but I could feel the boost going through the power band. It was reading fine yesterday at 8psi. Its a Autometer Ultra lite boost gauge. I checked the vac lines and connections and they all seem to be good, could it be a bad gauge?

If it did not move either way, you may have a pinched line. I know you said you checked them, but check them again. Never heard of a bad gauge.

Stangdude27 07-28-2006 08:07 AM

Check the t fitting's for the guage. sounds like it's either a pinched line or not hooked up in the back. Is the idle off at all like dropping RPM's when you let off the gas and it recovers with a sputter?

stangjunkie04 07-28-2006 09:23 AM


Originally Posted by Stangdude27
Check the t fitting's for the guage. sounds like it's either a pinched line or not hooked up in the back. Is the idle off at all like dropping RPM's when you let off the gas and it recovers with a sputter?

I took the gauge out and started the car and I am getting vacume from the tube at the back of the gaug. I check to make sure the nylon tube was securely in the T-fitting and make sure there was no leaks. I figure if I am getting enough vacume to hear and feel from the line behind the gauge then there should be no obstruction in the line. Its when I put the gauge on that I get nothing.

02Stang 07-28-2006 06:19 PM

man I have gone through three guages from autometer and I am not verry happy with them . mine will work perfectly for about 2-3 months and than they read way off of 0 when the car is off and when i am at iddle it goes to like 28lbs of vaccum.

call Autometer and send the guage back they should replace it with another.

Stangdude27 07-28-2006 10:03 PM

The springs go bad quick in those guages. Go buy a cheap boost guage from autozone or something. Atleast if you swap it out while your their and find it faulty you can just walk in and return it.

Blk02stang 07-29-2006 05:00 AM

I've seen a bunch of turbo guys have the autometer boost guages go bad on them, go buy a DEFI boost guage! You wont be disapointed in that one :beerchug:


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