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No boost after heater elbow repair

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carraudio

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On my 99 GTP I had a leak on my heater elbows so I put in the aluminum ones. I have done this repair before on my wife's old 3.8 NA with no problems. This time when I did it I broke the U shaped vac line coming out of the evap canister control value. I used some heat shrink to seal it up but that didn't work the best and it ran like crap. So round two I used heat shrink and some super glue to seal it up. It idles fine now but I have no boost. The BBV opens and closes if I give it gas so I'm sure that is working. The only thing that i took off was the alt. and I just flopped it over so nothing but this one vac line was disconnected. I just can't figure it out. You think if I didn't let the super glue dry 100% it could of sucked some up in the evap value? Thanks for the help.
 


One thing to remember is those vac lines after being under the engine bay for 10-15 years become very brittle and can be broken very easily. If they have not been replaced since you owned the car I would just replace everything. Put in new Ts and new lines.
 
It was the T above the heater elbow. I replaced some of the O2 lines too and it is running better. I'm also getting a new idle air control valve.
 


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