Had my first Sock Sucking moment today
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I've been preparing for an MOT on Tuesday.

Big puddle of fluid on the floor when I started the car this morning. Thought it was fuel so removed the boost pipes and turbo inlet flexible to check the fuel lines. Still no clue where it came from. Smelt like petrol

Anyway, put it all back together and thought we would modify the turbo inlet flexi to get the filter a bit higher up.

The proper K&N turbo filter just will not fit so we've been using a filter sock as a temporary measure, which to-date has been OK.

First run on boost and and it went pear-shaped. Lost boost. Lifted bonnet. No filter sock. Found it in the turbo inlet.

No damage except that the vacuum created has pulled a load of oil past the compressor seal and filled the boost pipes with oil

I've re-fitted the sock and taken it for another test drive and all is well.

Fingers crossed for the MOT.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

oops!

got a zip tie on it?

Apart form that Paul glad your getting on will with car, good luck in mot.

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
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Good luck with the MOT Paul. Little annoying jobs always crop up when the mots due lol.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Good luck with the MOT - hope all goes well for you.

As some will know, I hate those things with a passion. What makes it worse is that I have been forced to run them for the past 3 months as K&N let me down and the ones I then ordered were another 5 weeks in the post.

Another thing I have found with these 'socks' is that they still let gritty particles through, I found that inside of the throttles, which just made my opinion of them worse.

Glad there was no damage.

sounds like fun Paul - pleased there was no damage!!

have you oiled them Sprock?

If Carling made Mini engines
it would probably be like this one!

Good luck with the MOT Paul, and well done on writing the title right, S and C are pretty close on the keyboard lol

I use K&N oil. perhaps its not the same as the Pipercross oil

Lol, whilst i was at college a chav who was on the same course removed his air filter pipe on his 1.0 punto and replaced it with a tight! Guess where it ended up!!

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


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"er dad, where's the air filter gone?"

Found the fuel leak.

Loose hose clip on the 3 Bar fuel rail

Only leaked when it was cold.

Odd, very odd.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

missread the title of this thread and thought paul had a new income !

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