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Thanks Steve for your feedback, all great information and advice. I would just love to get access to a Gas analyser and am pretty sure my trusted...
Hi Steve, Can't say I have ever seen or heard of a VLV and pretty sure it is not on the Euro. I did the unscientific testing on the AAV from cold...
Hi Tommy, Ok, pretty good so I need to up the ante I guess.... I had cause to remove the chin spoiler to do some work on the radiator fans and...
Good pick-up about the numbering....spot on
Hi Steve When the bypass screw is fully closed, I recon the Idle speed is about 800. This is with the throttle plate tight / fully closed aswell....
I also do not get any oil in the airbox and am therefore assuming that I too do not have a blow by issue.
I am continually finding wiring bodges made by hopelessly incompetant people and the latest episode is one that caused my fuel pump to become...
Understand what you are saying and you are right....I think the throttle body screw is perhaps just a fine tune adjustment for the warm idle speed.
Thanks you guys for your comments.....I too am surprised that unmetered air can get into the plenum via the oil seperator inlet. The rate of...
Hi Everyone..... Is there supposed to be a "check valve" of some sort within the oil seperator (item 14) as operated by the vacuum pipe back to...
Just to conclude this issue.... When I pulled the thermostat I found that it had a rubber plug / foot which had become detached and was left...
I thought mine were steel. They looked like steel, felt like steel but a magnet revealed that they were plastic. This is one of the plastic...
Hi Sean, No, the replacement Thermostat I got from Superformance has no bleed hole and I will need to drill one (pics are of this latest...
I have bought replacement hoses for the rad connections and big pipes and will be progressively fitting them. When the car was last in the...
There has been quite some mention of loose pipes, connections or fastenings.....can air actually get into the system knowing that it is...
Hi Richard, did I bleed it at the water pump.....yep and got absolutely nothing but coolant. When I replaced the original Savara thermostat...
Hoping the thermo is the problem here. The aftermarket ones look really cheap and flimsy when compared side my side and despite the fact they...
+1 MWR4440... Just been to check the set I recently took off my 83 QV and they are indeed hard plastic over metal core The actual teeth are...
Hi Maurice, Thanks....The cycles of temp fluctuations happen every drive, exactly the same, always returning to normal operation after the...
Hi Ruben, Thanks for the reply....not particularly worried but more curious about what could be causing the problem. My ownership has been...
