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3sgte water hose
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Sun, 03 November 2002 08:36
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Phaaaark!
If anybody is in the process of putting a 3sgte into anything or has their 3sgte engine out of the car etc.......
CHANGE THE HOSE THAT GOES FROM THE BASE OF THE OIL COOLER BACK UP TO THE WATERPIPES BEFORE YOU PUT IT IN THE CAR
It's about 80 - 100 mm of well hidden, I'm gonna scream, chop my car up with a gas axe then shoot 12 people waterline.
As an example, to change this in my sw20 on saturday:
For starters take off your exhaust. Then your dump pipe. Then your front engine mount. Then the oil line from block to turbo, then turbo to block (wait till yoo try to get the 32mmm fitting out of the block for that one).To get access to some of this you'll need to take off your intercooler pipes, your enginebay crossbrace, drain the oil, drain the coolant (whats left anyway), take off the turbocharger heat shield. Then your dipstick tube. Then the metal line that goes from the base of the oil cooler (under the oil filter) and up towards the waterline. Then try to get the old stinking pipe off.
Then fit the new one and put it all back.
It writes easier than it spanners.
Moral of the story is.....when I changed this while the engine was out of my car it took ten minutes - and I didn't burn myself. In hindsight I'd use braided line.
(If you don't it ain't a bad idea to wrap it in heat sheild)
I was lucky, I found out the pipe burst almost instantly (water straight onto the dump pipe, pretty hard to miss) and I have access to an excellent workshop.
Make no mistake this pipe is an evil engine/weekend destroyer. Water flies out fast, it emptied most of my cooling system in seconds.
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3sgte water hose
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jase | Sun, 03 November 2002 08:36 |
