2 question , pulsation damper, intake cleaning
09-20-05, 05:55 AM
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Originally Posted by RETed
The banjo bolt will never fail; too bad the same can't be said of a replacement PD.
09-20-05, 06:04 AM
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Originally Posted by NZConvertible
Never said it can't fail, but I have no reason to believe a new one won't outlast the car. If you think a new one is a so dangerous, how have thousands of FC's lasted this long with their original one? By your argument they should've all burnt to the ground by about 1995...
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09-20-05, 07:11 AM
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And that proves what? That all new ones will also fail? How many new ones have you seen fail? Plenty of people have bought new PD's and had no problem. You haven't explained how all those original PD's lasted so long but a new one can't be considered reliable.
09-20-05, 11:06 AM
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I got a banjo bolt for my 88 and took the intake off and did the bolt and brass washers and replaced a bunch of lines under there while i was at it and put it all back together and up in running all in all about 2 hours tops and this was my first time to take it off. As long as you remember what you have done its easy to put back together. All i did was take all the hoses and connections loose, take the bolts off the intake and then lifted straight up and tilted it up and held it up with some metal twine on the underside of the hood( tied to the bracing under there) and did my work and put it back. I had an original 17 year old pulsation dampener that wasnt leaking but the screw had come loose. I smelled some fuel and it turned out to be a dry rotted hose that connects the fuel rails to eachother. I replaced it for peace of mind and my car runs the exact same as it did before without the dampener. Im not trying to open up this can of worms again or anything im just stating my luck with it. All my fuel system under the hood is good to go for another 17 years now 
. If your the least bit mechanically inclined then taking the intake off to access it isnt hard to do. Like i said this was my first time and it took at the most 2 hours to do. It gave me an all new respect for these cars. All my other non rotary cars werent near this easy to work on.
. If your the least bit mechanically inclined then taking the intake off to access it isnt hard to do. Like i said this was my first time and it took at the most 2 hours to do. It gave me an all new respect for these cars. All my other non rotary cars werent near this easy to work on.
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