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I would drop the oil and pull the lower sump pan off to check the oil pickup pipe.I am planning in doing the same, is there a oil sump gasket that needs to be changed too?
Hi guys, located in Poole Dorset, i can top up your aircon gas and give it a leak test and check over other bits while the bonnet is up. £50 mobile charge within small radius. but i do frequent thames valley so i may be able to do a meet up. or do a deal at an oof meet up.Simon, Many thanks for the aircon high pressure valve change and the complete vac, regas and leak test that you did few days ago. The aircon is working very well. can higly recommend to other OOF members. with kind regards
Shortly i will have a workshop i will be operating from for all the police vehicles, so you would be welcome to come there and i would do it there and then for you.
Again, in poole, dorset.
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QuoteQuoteQuestion, did the valve have a black plastic cap on it?
If it didn't then get one as this is actually the primary seal!
Yes, I do have the black plastic caps on both valves. But they are not full screwed on tight, as one Vx tech guy said if you tighten it fully the middle part of the cap will touch the valve and the gas will escape.
So I had it like 75% tight.
Recently I changed the rocker cover gaskets, As a gengeral check I do go over all the nuts, bolts to make sure they are up to the torque values. Part of this check I might have also over tighten (by hand) the aircon valve black caps.
Is there a torque value for the caps?
What an idiot that VX mechanic is, of course it wont touch the schrader valve, the bit in the cap is only short.
They do ned to be on to a reasonable finger tightness.
As said, they are the primary seal so need to be on tight!
Question, did the valve have a black plastic cap on it?
If it didn't then get one as this is actually the primary seal!
I can totally believe the back box was toast once they disturbed thwe joints. This is how mine looked when I dod the cat-back replacement, nothing more than gravity required to separate them!
Actually I swear they are the same. Mine fitted perfectly fair doos, albeit the centre boxes had dents in 'em like yours and they have a slight sporty rasp to them. I'll try and see if they're stamped tomorrow morning
QuoteJust 2 minutes ago vx van turned up and exchanged the old ones for these ones... they still don't look like the original ones on the car though..
I could not take the pics of the ones that vx took back... these are exchanged items.
http://s337.photobucket.com/albums/n361/Sairam10008/IMAG0013.jpg
http://s337.photobucket.com/albums/n361/Sairam10008/IMAG0014.jpg
Cheers
Those ones do look like GM to me.... odd that the tail pipe on the back box is sprayed black though :-/
Sounds like you have replaced your original OEM Vauxhall genuine exhaust system with a cheap aftermarket exhaust...may well fit ok, but wont be as good wont last as long and certainly wont sound as good...
