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(Message started by: taliban on Oct 11^th, 2006, 12:01pm)

Title: 2.5TD....
Post by taliban on Oct 11^th, 2006, 12:01pm

this might've been posted before but its worth posting again;

was chatting to Mazzy about the turbo (i know bu**er all about em) and he gave me a top tip,

there is a vacuum hose that runs from the underside of the inlet manifold to the top of the diesel pump where it is connected by a banjo bolt (the other end is a jubilee clip), remove this hose but soak the banjo in wd40 first and blow it through with compressed air or carb cleaner and refit it. i used carb cleaner and a fair amount of gunk dripped out, but more importantly the small holes in the banjo bolt were crusted up so i cleaned them all out with a pin, i then refitted the pipe, it all took 10 minutes.
result; the engine feels much freer, the throttle is definately more responsive, the car pulls superbly, and best of all, my scorp has always smoked quite heavily under acceleration, i cleaned this hose last saturday and so far, no more smoking!!! except the usual puff when changing gear ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D