blebo
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Registered: 18th Apr 02
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Right heres the story so far.....
Car: Corsa 1.2 SXI 99 T- Reg 103K miles
My car seems to judder a lot when accelerating and slowing down and after some reasearch I discovered that the most common problem was the breather pipes being clogged. i checked the pipes this weekend and surprise surprise full of yellow oily goo. I follwed the pipes to the air intake and noticed that the butterfly also had a nice coating of goo as well so..
Heres the plan.
I have ordered two new pipes (the large pre butterfly and small post butterfly) and will replace them except I am going to connect the lager one to a pipercross filter rather than the air intake which I am going to seal. i am then going to run carb cleaner through the butterfly and give it a good clean.
Question
Will this work okay..... I have been reading about the "breather Mod" but I dont think I will have to get the drill out as it is only a 1.2!!
Will I need a cathcment tank or will the filter be fine without one (again it is nly a small engine)
should I be doing anything else to the engine whilst I am doing this at the weekend
Cheers
Blebo
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Kris TD
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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it you dont use a catchment tank it will piss oil over your engine.
you say yellow goo? take off your oil filler cap and see if it has it there too?
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blebo
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Nothing on the oil cap, jsut in the breather tube.
Really dont want to add a catchment tank unless I have to..... will It really have that much pressure??
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Kris TD
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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kule, as for the pressure, well its nothing fantastic, my mate has a breather filter on his clio and only a tiny amount of oil comes out of it and its been on for ages.
if you can live with wiping it periodically then its fine.
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blebo
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THats my weekend sorted then!!
Cheers
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