I'm trying to install my manual boost controller, but the hose off the wastegate actuator and turbo housing won't budge. At first, I thought it was one hose, but it's a hose connected to a metal pipe and then to a hose again. How do I get these hoses off? Should I just rip them up and get new hoses?

 

those hoses can be pretty hard to get off, i've had to cut a lot of mine to get them off. just cut em up or do whatever to get the old hose off. then you could just get some silicon hose to replace them.
i think its 3.5mm, but not positive. i dont recommend the apc silicon pepboys sells, i've seen them collapse under vacuum and they dont fit well. their regular vacuum hose/wiper fluid hose works alright

 

use some pb blast or wd 40 on it. and take some pliers and get to twistin should come right off!!

 

What about the squeez clips? Those things seem indestructable. I tried to use needle nose pliars to bend the clips out of shape, but as soon as you touch them again, they snap right back into place. Plus, I think I bent the steel rod in between the wastegate actuator and housing nipple. One other thing. The intake was as if melted onto the turbo. When I ripped the thing off, peices of the edge fell apart and some of it was stuch onto the turbo. Ouch.

 

Could someone confirm the size is 3.5 mm?

 

i think thats the size man. i seen those hoses do that alot. just going from hot and cold kills them. keep workin with it!!

 

Those hoses are more like 6mm or 1/4".


-Ted