Mitsu wastegate rod fell off...

[R/T]

No wonder my Shadow project felt so doggy, 0 boost because the wastegate arm fell off...

What is *supposed* to hold it on??

Any tricks to reattach it on the car??

Looks like a hassle!!

[sethyboy2003]

yeah get another mitsu turbo to look at while your hand is reached eather behind the intake manifold or while your laying underneath the car.

make sure when you put it back on to push/pull it to the top so it doesn't fall off so easy.

[sethyboy2003]

you sure about 0 boost? on my bro's mini the arm fell off and we couldn't figure out why we were only making 3psi at WOT near redline. Even with the arm off you should be making some boost not much more than 4psi though.

[MVaughn]

Take the part of the wastegate with the arm and the hole at the end and put it on the flapper valve. You will have to feel around until you can feel the swinging valve. Put that end on on the valve and secure it with a clip. Then pull the rod toward you (by the canister part) and attach that end to the turbo housing. If it is like the garretts it will have two bolts.

[glhsken]

Use an alligator electrical clip to secure it BadAndy had his done that way for a year.

[zark]

I thought this was how you do it:

[csxtra]

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Originally posted by glhsken Use an alligator electrical clip to secure.

I second that...Radio Shack sells two sizes of all-metal alligator clips, get the larger ones...I have had one on my Garrett for about two years...really easy to get on/off. Its been a while since I've looked at a mitsu's arm, but as long as it has the ridge for the c-clip, the alligator clip should do the trick.

[BadAndy]

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Originally posted by glhsken Use an alligator electrical clip to secure it BadAndy had his done that way for a year.

I DID NO SUCH THING! ....lol... that was Vaughn's Hilljack rigging.....the funny thing about it was that I think it was actually a roach clip Spanky? you got anything you want to tell us about yourself?

[R/T]

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Originally posted by csxtra I second that...Radio Shack sells two sizes of all-metal alligator clips, get the larger ones...I have had one on my Garrett for about two years...really easy to get on/off. Its been a while since I've looked at a mitsu's arm, but as long as it has the ridge for the c-clip, the alligator clip should do the trick.

The dang Mitsu arm attaches from the BOTTOM, so it falls off because of that gravity thing...

I'll engineer a solution tonight.

[glhsken]

Yes, and the alligator clip works on it well.... Andy's car was a mitsu when he did it.

[lametec]

Depending on year, the mitsu arm attached from the bottom or the top. I think it was '88 down and '89 up. Don't recall which was up or down, though.

[redirocrt92]

After mine fell off about 10 times, I stuck some JB weld to it, and it hasn't come back off yet..

[BadAndy]

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Originally posted by glhsken Yes, and the alligator clip works on it well.... Andy's car was a mitsu when he did it.

LOL....Ken? that was Mike's car your thinking of. What I did to solve the falling wastegate rod was to slightly put a upward bend in the rod so that it had a little angle to it right in front of the hole. I unbolted the canister from the housing and then attached the arm to the swingvalve.....the upward bend ment that I had to do this first.....then I bolted the canister back to the compressor housing.....never had another problem out of it.

[glhsken]

I'm so confussed!!!


I KNOW someones car had that!!!