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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Grrrrrr on 30 March 2011, 20:10:53
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Thought I'd share a little home inspiration.
Was giving my breathers a good clean out yesterday when my eye fell upon an oil suction pump and a can of petrol. The connection was made and a suck of petrol later I was pumping petrol straight down the black plastic (forgotten what the bit in the centre is called) holes. Did the job a treat.
Not sure what it'll do to the rubber on my suction pump but I left it to dry thoroughly before a quick layer of oil was applied so hopefully OK.
J
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On the more general front, is petrol not too volatile to be used as a solvent?
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When I recently changed my cam cover gasket I was planning to clean out my Breather tubes as well.
Then I found out that you can buy 3 brand new breathers from Vauxhall for £20.73 all in.
Save's a bit of work and It's a nice feeling putting brand new parts on your car.
I know they won't perform any better then the old one's if I just cleaned them out, but for the sake of a score, I thought why not 8-) 8-) :y
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On the more general front, is petrol not too volatile to be used as a solvent?
Seemed to work OK. Laid everything out to dry and then changed the spark plugs etc while I was waiting for it to dry.
J
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When I recently changed my cam cover gasket I was planning to clean out my Breather tubes as well.
Then I found out that you can buy 3 brand new breathers from Vauxhall for £20.73 all in.
Save's a bit of work and It's a nice feeling putting brand new parts on your car.
I know they won't perform any better then the old one's if I just cleaned them out, but for the sake of a score, I thought why not 8-) 8-) :y
Its not just the pipes you need to clean out though. theres also the breather box at the rear of the o/s head,the throttle bodies,plenum and the small tubes in the black plastic piece (cant remember what its called atm) on top of the plenum. ;)
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Yeah, and that little one in the black plastic bit is so narrow it is a joke. Really need to get that one done. That bit down the back of the engine is a bugger too.
£20? Night out at Wetherspoons!