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Old 05-08-2005, 01:43 PM
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flyboy,

It is strictly a safety device to blow off boost to the ALDA and prevent overfueling if the wastegate fails to do it's job and your boost gets too high. It is set ~ 1.1 bar? or such.

No vacuum function at all on your 1982 300SD.
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Last edited by jbaj007; 05-08-2005 at 03:32 PM. Reason: add year
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