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This is what your hose should look like after the recall work. The hose bracket is fitted to the alternator
Check your air filter box does not get damaged during the work. Mine got slightly damaged
Will have a look tonight.
So far so good made it back. not sure if I am still hearing a very feint wheezing noise but car drives good.
on another note, my rear mudlap is tearing off.
only instead of the rubber tearing off - the whole bolt thats attatched to the body came off... and to make it even better - it tore the sheet metal off the body lol
Yes, I heard it was the bracket holding the air box to the inner guard that could be damaged, as the airbox was difficult to remove from it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Grappler
Pickles.
To replace the hose and install the bracket the air filter box comes out. To do this properly the AC line should be removed with the refrigerant reclaimed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pickles2
As if this is going to happen!
So the plastic filter box gets squeezed from under the ac pipe fitting and can get damaged. Some have reported cracking of the box. Mine had the plastic lip on top bartled where it got forced past the ac fitting. It has not caused the box to fail but its poor workmanship
The info I had was that the air box was fitted to the bracket via rubber grummets, and that as the fit into the grummets was very tight, damage could occur during removal from them?
Pickles.
And as I've mentioned above, it is best to check the power steering pipes/hoses coming out of the steering box for damage done while they have been fitting the turbo hoses....
In particular the hose that comes out of the steering box just above and slightly forward of the steering column and has a tight radius curve and leads forward and goes back into the front of the steering box ( that's the simplest way to describe it....)
This hose gets used as a brace to get extra leverage for putting the turbo hoses on and also doing the clamps up, it is not designed for this.... And as such the hose gets an even tighter radius in the bends and restricts hydraulic flow causing possible damage and poor steering feel and in some cases loss of power steering fluid as a result of the hydraulic hose kinking and splitting on the tight radius bend.
Regards,
Mike.