The previous owners indie had told him that for $200 he could "get the turbo working".Now that i have had a chance to look at it i find that he had connected a vacuum line directly to the wastegate actuator AND connected the manifold pressure line directly to the aldl!!! The aldl has not been tampered with.I only put the pressure guage on to get readings under driving conditions as my son has a 93 2.5 that he feels is low on power and next week we will be checking it over.When i first got to the hwy where i could step on it and i didnt really floor it ,it definetly went over 20psi for an instant.I immediatly let off and drove it more carefully the rest of the trip and did not exceed 15psi again.The Gauge of course could be wrong,but its is fairly new 0-30psi industrial gauge from Grainger so i have no reason to distrust it. The really scary part of this is having been driving it without knowing all this and the other day running it WOT up an access ramp onto the interstate.I wonder what the manifold pressure was then and how the headgasket survived.I really intended to start another thread for this subject but since it got started here might as well keep it here.Will be a while before i can check out the EDS and see what was the problem that caused him to do this and decide if i will repair the original system or just eliminate it and go to a pressure operated actuator for simplicity.All suggestions and opinions are welcome. TIA Don

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