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Hi Jules Rectified the old grey matter not engaging cheers Arctic
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When I bought my 75 the other day I took a screwdriver with me. The dealer didn't know anything about the plenum check, so I showed him there and then - the plenum was clean as as whistle and dry as a bone
The only reason I knew to check it was in reading these forums and making notes about what to check on the car, so as a thank you, I've paid my £10 subscription and will be buying one of Jules plastic thingys .. . Ali.
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You need to do the spy hole mod now you have purchased your car, and if it as a sunroof check the sunroof drain tubes also. http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...d.php?t=125864 Spy hole mod http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...1&postcount=21
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8th March 2016, 11:58 | #134 |
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Pre - Rainy season plenum checks
Well it'll soon be April the official rainy season here in the UK although it's already been very wet since Christmas. Time for checking your plenums before the torrential downpours of April.
(April showers!)
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10th March 2016, 08:06 | #135 |
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So glad I found this! That explains what the sloshing sound is when I go around corners...
And there was me saying 2 days ago that I'd never had any problems with the car!!! Update: This was super-easy to do and the old girl was full of water but she's dry again now! I didn't have a plumbing rod so I used a long metal rod for holding a rabbit run together. Worked fine (took over half an hour to drain though). Now for the spyhole mod... Last edited by invoke-delight; 10th March 2016 at 10:42.. |
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I've got the Jules Mod on the O/S, the Homebase Gutter Mesh Mod on the N/S, the Spyhole mod and a rodding tool made out of a pipe bender, some plastic tube, a boot lace and and old lavatory handle and my lovely new pollen filter is as dry as dry can be despite the recent deluge.
My friend, on the other hand, has none of these but he DOES have a very shiny car with a parboiled ECU.
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Oh, and if anyone says it only seriously affects the diesels then good luck when your mother / wife / or worse mother in law gets an impromptu foot bath when you pull away suddenly ..... only half kidding really, but the smell of damp dog from a wet pollen filter can be rather unpleasant.
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10th March 2016, 12:45 | #138 |
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Just to let you all know that its not just leaves etc that get "attracted" to the drain holes in the plenum. I checked mine the other day to find a bit of plastic from one of the retention clips on the plenum access covers lodged in the drain hole under the ecu..
thankfully it had just been restricting the drainage, not blocking it.. |
28th March 2016, 17:11 | #139 |
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After this afternoons downpour went out to check, and my car is parked currently offside to the kerb, partial flooding of the roads, so popped the bonnet, with a torch one can see down past the wiper motor looking through the offside grill - oh horror, I can see water down there.
Grabbed my equipment, phillips, long nosed pliers, old tailgate support (my clearing device) and opened up the nearside, carefully extracting the top panel and spotting the clips that try to escape. Looked in the bottom and it's clear and easily drained, so then realized that due to the camber of the road, any water remaining in the chamber had pooled on the offside - phew. For those that might not have done it, this took me all of eight minutes. |
28th March 2016, 22:19 | #140 |
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From the underside cut the end of the driver's side plenum drain off at an angle (one below servo)
Then rod it through from underneath. We do this on every owners car we MOT. Much easier to do on ramp but not vital. Plenum drains from both sides then and doesn't matter which camber you park on
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