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(Message started by: ro284 on Jan 3^rd, 2012, 10:08pm)

Title: 2-3 Transit inlet manifold?
Post by ro284 on Jan 3^rd, 2012, 10:08pm

2-3 Transit inlet manifold? Can anyone tell me if this is the same as the Scorpio 2-3 manifold please?
After overheating last year and getting oil in the coolant, which must have become acidic, the stat housing seems very thin! i have repaired it but think i had best replace this if i get the car through, m.o.t! plus re m.o.t. is the flashing air bag light a fail yet?
cheers Bob

Title: Re: 2-3 Transit inlet manifold?
Post by lleewar on Jan 4^th, 2012, 12:43am

Air bag light not a fail yet. Understand it could be by April.

Title: Re: 2-3 Transit inlet manifold?
Post by Tompion on Jan 4^th, 2012, 3:15am

Yes a 2.3 Transit manifold will fit (assuming there isn't more than 1 type of 2.3 engine used in transits). There was someone selling new transit ones on Ebay a while back & several people here used them on Scorpio's. Some of the bolt on bits are slightly different – throttle body, idle air control valve & I think one of the temp sensors so you’ll have to swap them from the Scorpio manifold.

The stat housing gets eaten away by the coolant/heat anyway so probably nothing to do with the oil.

The asbestos looking lining in this picture is actually the plastic eaten into:

http://i.imgur.com/fSxBQ8N.jpg

If the steel insert is rusty like this one it's a good idea to push it out, clean it up & treat it for rust before it swells and cracks the manifold like this one has.

Title: Re: 2-3 Transit inlet manifold?
Post by lesterlad aka Rodders on Jan 4^th, 2012, 9:20am

on 01/04/12 at 00:43:51, lleewar wrote:

Air bag light not a fail yet. Understand it could be by April.

I understood it came in on the 1st Jan this year.

Title: Re: 2-3 Transit inlet manifold?
Post by Jonnycab on Jan 5^th, 2012, 3:53am

As Tompion confirms, it is the same manifold ;).....I bought one of those new manifolds off Ebay a couple of years back (£50 if I remember right) & it was exactly the same manifold as the 2.3 Scorpio manifold :)

Title: Re: 2-3 Transit inlet manifold?
Post by ro284 on Jan 5^th, 2012, 8:16pm

Thanks Tompion, thanks Jonnycab for confirming.
Bob