okay im half way through this, old manifold off. Surfaces all cleaned up ready for the new one to take its place... its all going well...... abit too well in fact, im waiting for something to go badly wrong!
Although when i took the little black box off the back of the engine both the rubber pipes were in poor shape and have been bodged, needless to say they ripped apart when i went to take it out, also noticed the box was full of sum sort of wirey oily stuff which i cant get out through the holes, does this box need to be here and what does it do?
Also any suggestions of how to temp fix the broken pipes till i can get to a scrappy or buy new?
cheers
Sorry fella, was mowing the lawn when you were having this trouble.
The 'flametrap' box is filled with wire wrapped into a little ball a bit like the things you bung in your kettle to collect the hard-water scale. In this case it's designed to help the oil mist from the crankcase fumes condense and drip back down the metal breather instead of clogging up your breather pipes on the way to the throttle body.
It isn't essential, certainly not short term. Any old bit of rubber hose that will link together the metal breather pipe and the camcover will do.
I think it might be 19/20mm I/D hose you need to re-plumb it, and most motor factors will carry something like that.
Whole new box is not expensive from Vx if you can't be bothered to dissolve all the condensed crud in carb cleaner, though it doesn't come with the necessary hose bits IIRC.
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