I just brought my 88 TII to the dealer to have a few things fixed (power windows, chrge AC, ect) and while there had them run a few checks on it.

So they found a vacum leak somehwere on the intake side. They said it was down underneath the intercooler somewhere, and that it was pretty small.

Their advice was to not fix it, as I have alot of miles on my engine (118,000 or so) and that opening everything up to fix a small leak would bring a chance of getting some crud, or small piece of something into the rototrs, which could very easily break an apex seal.

what do you guys think abotu that diagnois? I havne't noticed any problems with how the car is running, but I will be doing some more work on it soon, right now I just have a downpipe and high flow cat, I'll be getting cat back and intake soon. Although with this bit of news it will probably be boost gauge and AF meter first.

thanks for any help, and for making through this long post
(also how do you spell vacum? vacuum? vacume?)

 

The diagnosis? Well he did let you know about it. That was good. Maybe the leak is so miniscule that it was not cost effective to repair it just now. I don't really buy into the crud droping into things part.Would have helped it he had identified just where this leak is. So the good part is that you can now fix it at your leisure when you do some work on the car. Turbo, right? Picture the intercooler off and a couple of pieces of pvc pipe replacing it so you'll have a little more room working on the car while the engine is running. Then you'll have room to snoop around finding the vac leak. Bottom line is I don't have any real problem with the guy not fixing the leak right now.