23-03-2012, 07:43 PM
Spent the day hunting boost leaks on the other zx (I may or may not be hoarding them), checked usual suspects, d-seal, hoses and that.
Couldn't find anything obvious so thought I'd take the inlet mani off to see if it was blowing on the gasket.
Got distracted after taking the inlet mani off by realising its got a T2 bolted on.
Figured it'd be rude not to take the exhaust mani and turbo off too, giving that I wanted to replace the gasket and its a one piece jobbie. Plus I could have a gander at the T2 and see if its in any good condition (which it was)
Considered swapping it onto the silver zx and replacing the k14 to see what the fuss is all about, but run out of time as gf needed a car to get to work and I need a car tomorrow morning, so can't really put them both out of action.
Then raced the sun trying to get everything back together before dark and failed miserably. Turns out I could do with much smaller hands.
Morale of the story being something like 'if it isn't broke that bad, don't bother trying to fix it unless you are sure you've got plenty of spare time and are not doing it on a friday when you should be worrying about beer anyway, and also don't forget the car you're putting out of action is needed urgently for car type duties i.e. driving"
Couldn't find anything obvious so thought I'd take the inlet mani off to see if it was blowing on the gasket.
Got distracted after taking the inlet mani off by realising its got a T2 bolted on.
Figured it'd be rude not to take the exhaust mani and turbo off too, giving that I wanted to replace the gasket and its a one piece jobbie. Plus I could have a gander at the T2 and see if its in any good condition (which it was)
Considered swapping it onto the silver zx and replacing the k14 to see what the fuss is all about, but run out of time as gf needed a car to get to work and I need a car tomorrow morning, so can't really put them both out of action.
Then raced the sun trying to get everything back together before dark and failed miserably. Turns out I could do with much smaller hands.
Morale of the story being something like 'if it isn't broke that bad, don't bother trying to fix it unless you are sure you've got plenty of spare time and are not doing it on a friday when you should be worrying about beer anyway, and also don't forget the car you're putting out of action is needed urgently for car type duties i.e. driving"
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