w8lifter21

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1. Run to your handy hardware store (Grainger, Home Depot, Lowes), etc. and pick up a 3" to 2" rubber reducer from the plumbing section.

2. Go get a 2" PVC pipe plug/end

3. Go get a tire valve stem, can be found at Auto Zone, Murrays, Sears etc.(Home Depot may not have it, mine didn't)

4. Drill a hole in the end of the PVC cap, then stick the valve stem up from the inside out.

5. Stick the PVC cap w/valve stem in the 2" side of the rubber reducer, tighten hose clamp.

6. Remove your intake hose and attach the 3" side to the turbo, tighten hose clamp

7. I regulated my air compressor to about 3psi so I don't put too much air in the system. Now you can charge your system with the same attachment the you use to fill your tires with

I only needed 3psi to find my leak that is on the throttle body

Pics are right before I changed the PVC cap from the green hose to the tire valve stem. Use your imagination

Evo Girlie

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i'm gonna make 1 myself =) good write up

cs82685

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The problem I have with those stupid rubber reducers is that they say 2" or 3" or whatever, and when I measure it, it's always at least half an inch wider. Example I purchased a 2" to 3" and the 3" side was 3.5" wtf. It took me way too long to piece together the proper rubber/pvc pieces. Stupid rubber couplers. Anyways I'm just venting, good write-up, you can also add a gauge to the tester so you don't have to rely on your compressor for a reading. Oh you may also be able to just get a rubber end cap and use that instead of reducer/pvc end cap.

Edit: The inlet on our turbos is really 3"? I would have thought it was smaller

w8lifter21

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I have run into the same problem quite a few times. This is the 3rd one I have made for a car, I used Fernco products and everything fits snug.

I think the outside diameter of the turbo is a little bigger than 3", but the coupler slips over the outlet with a little umph