boost solenoid

[8AV8]

does it matter which side you hook the vacuum[boost] line up to on the boost solenoid? If you look at it with the wires pointing down and the ports pointing up , mine is on the right side...is this correct? Hope this isn't confusing

 

[scottyb]

doesn't matter.

 

[Quick6'n'-K.C.]

One male end has a clip on it, thats to hold the filter that rotted away in 1988-
It belongs on the other male end without the clip, i dont know if it makes a difference left for right and right for left.

BW

 

[84GNwith87eng]

do you mean wastegate solenoid?

if so, then yes, the right side because the left should have the filter on it, but I don't think it would matter really

 

[8AV8]

Yes, I did mean wastegate solenoid. I'm sorry if I was confusing. I'm still trying to learn about these cars and this website, I haven't been been working on either very long. Very much useful info on the site, though. Thanks for all the help, guys.

 

[acoen]

Now you guys have me confused, I guess I'm easily side-tracked. While standing in front of the car the filter should be on the right and the boost hose on the left (factory set up). Unless my mind is gone tonight, please tell me I'm right or wrong. Gutt feeling is that someone is going to hook this thing up wrong. I was always told not to confuse the two and it did matter which port the boost line was attached to. I could be wrong.

 

[84GNwith87eng]

My filter was on the left (if you're looking at the solenoid and its ports are facing you)...

 

[acoen]

Yours is opposite mine, I looked at Peter Hofman's book....One that Kirban sells and it shows it like mine. Standing in front of the car filter to the right and boost hose to the left. I wish someone would clear this up, both of my cars are in this configuration (filter right, boost hose left). Hell maybe it doesn't matter? I just changed the factory boost hoses on my 86' GN, so I know that is how my car came from the factory. HTH....

 

[Ormand]

The solenoid bleeds air to under the hood. If you hook the hose to the left one, the air will come out of the right one. If you hook the hose to the one on the right, the air will come out through the one on the left. Does that make a difference? It is possible that the valve is not symetric, and will allow a little more flow in one direction than the other, but I don't think that matters, either, until you get to the point where one stock solenoid is not big enough. I know there are "high flow" solenoids, but I don't know how you tell when you need one.