Paul Coddington
Active Member
A little bit cleaner
Paul Coddington
Active Member
The use of a hand held pressure device ( large bladder syringe ) has shown that the actuators on both turbos do work.
Datatek
Well-Known Member
No idea where that came from but it could certainly impede air flow.
Paul Coddington
Active Member
I didn't see it at first, I tapped the pipe and it spun round, at that point it was obstructing about half the bore of the inlet. It's been in there a while. I've owned this vehicle 3 years, odd it's never shown up before.
Datatek
Well-Known Member
Maybe it just moved from lining the tube wall to across the tube at some point when going over a bump for instance.
Paul Coddington
Active Member
If it intermittently went from lining the tube wall to being a say 90 degrees, it would have impeded air flow. If it started spinning in the flow, who knows what effect it could have.
Paul Coddington
Active Member
I've Had some interesting results on Google lens, trying to identify it. Brutalist art piece is my favourite, defender exhaust component another 
+1^^^
Paul Coddington
Active Member
Possibly a daft question. Are there metal sections lining the intake pipe?
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Datatek
Well-Known Member
Not that I have seen. Maybe the previous owner put that metal section in due to the pipe delaminating? Personally I would replace the pipe.
Paul Coddington
Active Member
My thoughts exactly
ovalandrover
Well-Known Member
there is a metal ring in the inlet pipe over the engine where the pipe goes into the plastic ipe that goes to the turbo.
see photos
Datatek
Well-Known Member
Looks like the one
Paul Coddington
Active Member
Looks like that's the animal. I need to look at the pipe to see if it has degraded to allow that ring to be drawn further into it. Thanks Ovalanderover, I would have definitely missed that.
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Technician, Bodgit & Scarper Ltd
That's off the MAP.
Paul Coddington
Active Member
Yes definitely the metal ring from the air inlet pipe. The section it was supposed to be in was no longer round having developed a flat section, I'm thinking that this would have acted like a hole or split in the inlet pipe hence crappy performance. Obviously my eyes are painted on as didn't see it when stripping it down. Hey ho I'll reassemble the thing abd see what happens. I'll let you know.
Grrrrrr
Technician, Bodgit & Scarper Ltd
Easy to see when you know what you are looking for.
Paul Coddington
Active Member
Most definitely
