ZD30 Boost Gauge installation

[Danny-DO]

Hi all,

Yeah... Sooo....
I purchased a cheaper Boost Gauge with **** installation instructions and I cannot find any instructions online besides the "install the vacuum gauge in any vacuum hose after the intake".Well great...Not a mechanical engineer and also first time owning a diesel so I am not sure how that will work. I am reaching out to yous for advice so that I don't plug this thing in the wrong place and loose my **** when it doesn't work.

See the pic with how the bay looks. Can anyone please dumb it down for me and point to which is the magic hose I am supposed to use?

Cheers...

 

[Boogieboots]

I believe you install a tee into the blue line exiting the curved alloy pipe from the turbo around the centre of the pic and plumb into this. Not sure if your gauge will need a power wire also...

 

[Danny-DO]

Forgot to add that these are my instructions.

 

[richNAV]

Ha @Danny-DO I'm searching up the exact same thing! Looks like I'm right behind you on doing up the Nav! What gauge did you buy? I managed to get a 2nd hand Autometer Cobalt off Marketplace . . . although it doesn't have a T piece or hose/tubing so I'm shopping for the most suitable parts as well . . .

 

[Danny-DO]

Ha @Danny-DO I'm searching up the exact same thing! Looks like I'm right behind you on doing up the Nav! What gauge did you buy? I managed to get a 2nd hand Autometer Cobalt off Marketplace . . . although it doesn't have a T piece or hose/tubing so I'm shopping for the most suitable parts as well . . .

Nice... I went with a cheap one form Autotecnica, the double analogue for boost and EGT. It came with everything but I decided to go and buy a brass T and use the SaaS silicone 5mm (or 6) hose I used to replace all my vacuum lines for the tubing.

These dials are fully digital. They have a remote vacuum sensor that sits in the engine bay and then connects to the dials via electrical signals for both readings.