Disco 1 300tdi +2" turrets affecting air intake

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Well I have no intention doing anything to mine because it really is hardly touching but that is my vehicle with my turrets and I have a spare pipe. I did consider packing the airbox up a bit where the bungs are in the bottom or putting some sticky foam in where they 'contact' but for now I'm happy to let physics take over and see wot happens so I can inform others
 
M/H/M if you look thru your old posts i think you will find WE had this conversation months if not a year ago :):rolleyes::p cant find pics :oops:
 
Air filter re-positioned higher
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Safety rubber bush on top of Shock mount (note distortion of hose)
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Note position of Snorkel hose around Air box
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See where shock absorber will rub through air intake and compression of hose.
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As I am "not a real engineer" I probably couldn't be any help to you anyway @MHM.
My apologies for my presumptuousness.
Best of luck. It looks like a real baffler...
 
Wacky idea of the day, @The Mad Hat Man

Can you not get another top shock nut ( or threaded nut with the same thread) Weld a piece of flat steel plate to it . Then wind the nut onto the thread that is exposed on the top of the shock. Thus you will have a flat plate sitting on top and the pipe will sit on that. you clould even once you know the orientation when tightened up , using a suitable hitting device to add a curve to the plate .

Cheers
 
The problem is not so much the shock top wearing the pipe, but the fact that it is compressing the air intake pipe and therefore reducing air flow. The pipe is very close to the bonnet line with the raised air filter box and, as can be seen, there is no room to move the hose to the side. I am flummoxed. :(
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
The problem is not so much the shock top wearing the pipe, but the fact that it is compressing the air intake pipe and therefore reducing air flow. The pipe is very close to the bonnet line with the raised air filter box and, as can be seen, there is no room to move the hose to the side. I am flummoxed. :(
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OK wacky idea number 2.

Looking at pic no 1 in that lot. does it seem the pipe has a flat section on the LH side of it.

Can you not take it off, turn it around front to back and oriebtate itso that the flat is at the bottom ?

Cheers
 
Mmmmmmmmmm I seem to recollect having this conversation in June (ish) 2016 :rolleyes::eek::eek: with a bloke called The Mad Hat Man:rolleyes::rolleyes: whom out of the kindness of my heart TAGGED him in the thread were we discussed it till he fell asleep :rolleyes::):p:p
 
Or , if that does not work, go to an exhaust place , and see if they have any pipe the right size that you can put in between the airbox and the bend, replacing the tube that iis the problem.

Cheers
 
neilly said:
Or , if that does not work, go to an exhaust place , and see if they have any pipe the right size that you can put in between the airbox and the bend, replacing the tube that iis the problem.

Cheers
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I tried that, but the pipe still needs to be crushed to fit, and that reduces air flow again.
 
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