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What is this?
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:05 pm
by francophile1947
Hi all
I appear to have a leak, of some sooty stuff, from the curved metal pipe in the photo, where it joins the manifold.
Is this pipe part of the EGR system?
Sorry for poor quality picture - I had to use my webcam cos' my card reader has bust!
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:07 pm
by Veg_Ian
Yep, from memory that's part of the EGR system
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:00 pm
by francophile1947
Thanks Ian
I feel a "blanking off" coming up.
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:38 pm
by Maxter
If you do, please let us know how you do it.
Cheers
M
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:11 pm
by Bumbly1
Do a search, Dandywarhol has posted this with photos, easy peasy and better performance!
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:30 pm
by francophile1947
Hi Maxter
I took the "technical" route as a temporary measure.
Undid the 2 bolts, plus one on the clip half way along the pipe, lifted the pipe a little and put a 2p piece over the hole. Put it all back together and tried it. It actually seems to run better, but I'll know more when I've given it a longer run. If no problems I'll make a proper blanking plate.
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:49 pm
by dandywarhol
The pics were Veg Ians Tpm.................
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:19 am
by Veg_Ian
I took the "technical" route as a temporary measure.
Ideally all that pipework, diaphragm and control stuff could come out if you could permanently seal the entries for the inlet and outlet manifolds. It would make for working on the engine a lot easier. It's just having the inclination to get stuck in .....
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:51 pm
by neil/di
John look forward to the out come of your tests please keep us posted
Thanks
Neil
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:11 pm
by francophile1947
Will do Neil