Checking for boost leaks should be part of your routine maintenance schedule, but is it?
Mark from Redline Detection runs us through how checking for boost/air leaks can help avoid misdiagnosis and ensure a job well done when reassembling an engine, helping rule out any unintentionally introduced errors while on the tools.
While these units are aimed at commercial users and have expandable adaptors to help with quick and easy use for mechanics and technicians, they offer home enthusiast-level options. Of course, you can piece together your own kit for a specific vehicle too, or simply find a local workshop to do this for you on a routine basis instead.
While we do lean towards how to find a boost leak, as our example in this discussion, such machines can be used to find any air leaks in your intake, exhaust and coolant systems, and even batteries for those working on EVs.
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TIME STAMPS:
0:00 - Redline Detection
0:18 - Unmetered Air Diagnosis
1:23 - How It Works With Boost
2:57 - Expandable Adaptors
3:48 - The Process
4:33 - Smoke Density Tells All
5:38 - Misdiagnosis & Quality Check
6:55 - Home Enthusiast & Commercial Options
8:01 - Thank You Mark!
8:23 - The More You Know, The Faster You Go!
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