B4Andra
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Breather Pipe
So this took a while to sort out, mostly due to waiting on parts arriving, it appears that one of our favourte parts suppliers may or may not have neglected to stick some postage on the package! Anyway, at least it was just an honest mistake, and they have sorted it out on a subsequent parts order, so happy days!
In the picture I took of the breather pipe, I didn’t realise just how badly fitting the end was, there’s a good quarter-ish inch out - as can be seen from this expert examination of the problem...
The replacement with it’s fitting on the end buts right up to the oil separator. Much more convincing fit!
Seems to be a common failure point on these pipes, since a quick search on ebay for the part number reveals lists of them, missing the retaining ring on the end.
The difference this makes has been stark!
The car no longer struggles to start, it’ll run off the key every time now, hot or cold the thing starts well.
The idle went from a 2 to a 5 with the new injector and with this pipe it’s up to a 7 - on a scale where 1 is a washing machine with a brick in and 10 is as smooth as a w12 with a pound coin balanced on it.
So have driven the car around today, and it’s far better, the revs don’t drop like a stone when you sink the clutch anymore, the car is far more drivable. So a 50 mile round trip, the car drives better, but it’s still a touch lumpy.
Got home to the code scanner, and it’s still complaining about a leaky inlet... I can’t figure out where it could possibly be from.
Everything I have read regarding code P0420, says to ignore it if there’s an inlet manifold leak, because that’s causing it!
I went around looking for this leak using carb cleaner tonight, and I think the only possible place is the oil filler cap thing, so I will replace it, an easy thing to do anyway, but there was no solid result from the spraying carb cleaner. I don’t have any way to run a smoke test on the inlet, so if anyone has any suggestions how, I’m all ears!
Getting to the point where it’s ready to use, even if not 100% it’s most of the way there.
So this took a while to sort out, mostly due to waiting on parts arriving, it appears that one of our favourte parts suppliers may or may not have neglected to stick some postage on the package! Anyway, at least it was just an honest mistake, and they have sorted it out on a subsequent parts order, so happy days!
In the picture I took of the breather pipe, I didn’t realise just how badly fitting the end was, there’s a good quarter-ish inch out - as can be seen from this expert examination of the problem...
The replacement with it’s fitting on the end buts right up to the oil separator. Much more convincing fit!
Seems to be a common failure point on these pipes, since a quick search on ebay for the part number reveals lists of them, missing the retaining ring on the end.
The difference this makes has been stark!
The car no longer struggles to start, it’ll run off the key every time now, hot or cold the thing starts well.
The idle went from a 2 to a 5 with the new injector and with this pipe it’s up to a 7 - on a scale where 1 is a washing machine with a brick in and 10 is as smooth as a w12 with a pound coin balanced on it.
So have driven the car around today, and it’s far better, the revs don’t drop like a stone when you sink the clutch anymore, the car is far more drivable. So a 50 mile round trip, the car drives better, but it’s still a touch lumpy.
Got home to the code scanner, and it’s still complaining about a leaky inlet... I can’t figure out where it could possibly be from.
Everything I have read regarding code P0420, says to ignore it if there’s an inlet manifold leak, because that’s causing it!
I went around looking for this leak using carb cleaner tonight, and I think the only possible place is the oil filler cap thing, so I will replace it, an easy thing to do anyway, but there was no solid result from the spraying carb cleaner. I don’t have any way to run a smoke test on the inlet, so if anyone has any suggestions how, I’m all ears!
Getting to the point where it’s ready to use, even if not 100% it’s most of the way there.