Illustrated questions

#11

H.J. Kamps wrote:

Quote:

I just did a highly scientific experiement:

PTFE tape held over a match seems to melt, but harden. I think that is a
good thing, really.

HJ

GOOD

#12

"DROPBEAR" <dropbear (AT) bigfoot (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

i would be saying that the unidentified hose in the bottom pic is a vaccum
hose
particuarly since you can see the fuel line just behind it,
my guess is that it goes to the brake booster (servo) if your a right hand
driver that is.

cheers steve

Definately the carb overflow pipe...got the same set-up in my wife's 89 Mini
(servo gives it away...)

Phil

#13

"-AD-" <sp4mtrap (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

And DROPBEAR was sitting next to Elvis in the spaceship, which I thought
was kinda strange, but then they turned to me and said:

i would be saying that the unidentified hose in the bottom pic is a
vaccum
hose
particuarly since you can see the fuel line just behind it,
my guess is that it goes to the brake booster (servo) if your a right
hand
driver that is.

It definitely appears to be coming from the inlet manifold in pic3.

Also, if you look at pic2, you can see it appearing from under the ir
filter box, and it looks like it's headed towards the brake servo.

--
(-AD-) <uniqueid 'at' lineone.net
http://website.lineone.net/~uniqueid/
When you switch me off, will I dream?

The slightly larger pipe going across the bottom of the pic (with the inline
non-return valve) is the servo pipe.

Phil

#14

"-AD-" <sp4mtrap (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

And Phil Howard was sitting next to Elvis in the spaceship, which I
thought was kinda strange, but then they turned to me and said:

It definitely appears to be coming from the inlet manifold in pic3.

Also, if you look at pic2, you can see it appearing from under the ir
filter box, and it looks like it's headed towards the brake servo.

The slightly larger pipe going across the bottom of the pic (with the
inline
non-return valve) is the servo pipe.

I thought that was the one we were talking about?

--
(-AD-) <uniqueid 'at' lineone.net
http://website.lineone.net/~uniqueid/
When you switch me off, will I dream?

I was looking at the split hose identified by the red arrow (or rather the
split hose adjacent to the pipe pointed to by the arrow)...

#15

Quote:

There's a thermostatic flap valve inside it that allows hot air from
around the exhaust manifold to be mixed into the incoming air in cold
weather.

Does it just pull hot air, or does it pull actual exhaust into the air
intake? I would believe that this air has a much lower oxygene content, and
hence have an adversive effect on engine performance?

HJ

#16

Quote:

There's a thermostatic flap valve inside it that allows hot air from
around the exhaust manifold to be mixed into the incoming air in cold
weather.

Does it just pull hot air, or does it pull actual exhaust into the air
intake? I would believe that this air has a much lower oxygene content, and
hence have an adversive effect on engine performance?

HJ

#17

Quote:

There's a thermostatic flap valve inside it that allows hot air from
around the exhaust manifold to be mixed into the incoming air in cold
weather.

I could be very wrong about this, so feel free to correct be if I am,
but I thought the valve was to do with throttle and not temp. ie.
Under part throttle it pull warm air to aid fuel economy and under
full throttle it takes cooler air for performance.

As I say I could be wrong, that's just what I always thought it was
for.

#18

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:30:13 +0100, sp4mtrap (AT) hotmail (DOT) com (-AD-) wrote:

Quote:

And H.J. Kamps was sitting next to Elvis in the spaceship, which I thought
was kinda strange, but then they turned to me and said:

There's a thermostatic flap valve inside it that allows hot air from
around the exhaust manifold to be mixed into the incoming air in cold
weather.

Does it just pull hot air, or does it pull actual exhaust into the air

It's designed to draw air, but if the exhaust joint is leaky it will draw
exhaust gases in too.

it is supposed to draw air out of the engine compartment especially
from around the exhaust manifold
( http://drcwww.uvt.nl/~bogaard/manual/tuneup/8.htm )

Quote:

intake? I would believe that this air has a much lower oxygene content, and
hence have an adversive effect on engine performance?

Not as adverse an effect as an iced carb has!

icing is not neccesarily related to cold temperature, see:
http://drcwww.uvt.nl/~bogaard/ice.htm

HTH,
Theo van den Bogaard

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