A New Hope - the Millenium Falcon lives

[Junkie]

No pictures but on removal of the top engine plastic cover, I noticed a blue and black thin rubber hose that linked from the top of the injection system to a gizmo down on the drivers side front, behind the radiator.

The pipe was perished at the lower end and swinging in the wind, so i remade the end off (push fit) and connected it up.

I honestly have no idea what the pipe is for but as the gizmo end has a diaphragm I can assume its required...

Anyway, since connecting it up the car seems to run better and even returns better fuel consumption, so for once quite happy.

Also, as the top cover was off I noticed a squashed hose, so one for the next time I have a sunday to spare under the bonnet.

One more small hose connected at the front to the MAF hose also perished and remade.

As Turks mentioned in my stressed out thread, the cooling system runs at high pressure, not on my car until the expansion tank cap was replaced, prior to which the top hose was as flaccid as a ... well you get the idea.

Now with the cooling system fixed it is indeed a different beast, maybe its just a psychological thing but the car seems to be behaving as I would expect.

Bristol and back in less than 12 parsecs (wookieepedia)

"And...... relax"

[Jalf]

[quote=""Junkie""]Bristol and back in less than 12 parsecs[/quote]

It's the X5 that made the Bristol Run in less than twelve parsecs. you must have outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers mind you, I'm talking about the big Corellian ships now. ACE