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Hi All,
I was hoping for some advice/guidance before I contmplate this please.
The intake manifold gaskets are leaking a little bit of oil. I believe the oil to not be too serious and fairly normal? There is no smoke out of the exhaust so if it's turbo seals then they are very early in the failure stage.
Anyway, my question is actually regarding the gasket change. In theory I just undo the 8 or so bolts that hold the manifold to the engine, remove, clean surfaces, put new gaskets on and refit.
However, I don't believe I can do this without removing the injector hard pipes. Is this as simple as it appears (undo at the manifold end and hold out of the way)? Do I need to do anything to prevent air injestion or can i simply prime the fuel filter using the hand pump before restarting the engine?
What about draining coolant? Required?
Is there anything else that needs to be removed to allow me to do this and if so - do these parts also require new gaskets?
Finally, I have sprayed brake cleaner onto the area when running and it bubbles, suggesting air is escaping. I want to prevent this (apart from the obvious reasons) before the we take a trip to the lanes in Wales to avoid potential water injestion problems.
Hope this makes sense and an experienced person can tell me it should be quite easy.......
Pic below to show the leak on No1....
Alex
I was hoping for some advice/guidance before I contmplate this please.
The intake manifold gaskets are leaking a little bit of oil. I believe the oil to not be too serious and fairly normal? There is no smoke out of the exhaust so if it's turbo seals then they are very early in the failure stage.
Anyway, my question is actually regarding the gasket change. In theory I just undo the 8 or so bolts that hold the manifold to the engine, remove, clean surfaces, put new gaskets on and refit.
However, I don't believe I can do this without removing the injector hard pipes. Is this as simple as it appears (undo at the manifold end and hold out of the way)? Do I need to do anything to prevent air injestion or can i simply prime the fuel filter using the hand pump before restarting the engine?
What about draining coolant? Required?
Is there anything else that needs to be removed to allow me to do this and if so - do these parts also require new gaskets?
Finally, I have sprayed brake cleaner onto the area when running and it bubbles, suggesting air is escaping. I want to prevent this (apart from the obvious reasons) before the we take a trip to the lanes in Wales to avoid potential water injestion problems.
Hope this makes sense and an experienced person can tell me it should be quite easy.......
Pic below to show the leak on No1....
Alex
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