Again, no problem, I am also retired and know exactly what you mean!

Hi mate, any news on that trim?

No problem, thanks.

I can live with a tenner, how do you want me to pay? Cheers, John

Thanks, I'll take it. Any chance you could find out how much the postage/courier would be? In case it's cheaper to do a road trip. Cheers, John

Hi mate, any news on that trim?

Gaskets have just arrived...I'll be changing them tomorrow and properly checking the turbo trunking for holes.

I thought they were plastic, not carbon fibre!

Hi mate, I'm in Telford, do you want to sell it?

Duly liked!

Thanks, I'll do that.

Well, that's interesting. Mine is definitely an alloy inlet manifold and is non-EGR. I guess at some point in its long life someone has either changed the engine or the head. You live and learn!

I'm in Telford

Wammers,, mine definitely has gaskets cos I checked them when I took the manifold off, I have just ordered some off the net and they look exactly like mine?

I have just finished checking the manifold nuts and the 2 nearest the bulkhead, whilst not loose, were nowhere near as tight as the others. Once I had tightened them, I took it out for a quick drive. The whistle is still there but it is less pronounced and a different tone so I know I am on...

So, thanks to Flossie, the mystery is solved, and don't I feel a d**khead! I use a wheeled compressor to charge the air bags (due to long-standing and ongoing battle with EAS). I went to check that compressor and, what do you know, it was missing it's breather. How it came to drop out from...

Thanks, makes perfect sense, I will go and check that now.

The only compressor is for the EAS and since I have removed and replaced that about 4000 times, I know it doesn't come from there.

It's a diesel but it doesn't smell of fuel at all.

I do my own servicing so would hopefully have recognised it if I had taken it off. But, you are right, it is very clean which makes it all the more confusing since it came from underneath.