Parts required....
- 078 133 784 BG ..... Front hose £11
- 044 127 563 A ........ Metal T-piece £4
- 06A 103 221 BK ........ Rear hose £8
- A couple of short lengths of 8mm ID thick walled hose
- Small jubilee clips 10mm? 6
- medium jubilee clips 14mm? 4
1) remove Y-pipe, drivers side DV for access, f-hose and bleed valve (this is the fitting on the lower connection to the f-hose).
2) remove the old front hose and reducer that connected to the F-hose and replace with the new front hose direct to the manifold where the f-hose used to be.
2) OK then, no going back after this - you need to cut the long spider hose, the one that runs from the back to the bottom of the F-hose under the inlet manifold. It is hard plastic so be careful not to crack it. To cut it remove the lowest spider hose connection to the back of the manifold and the two upper ones, then you can pull the spider back enough to work on the f-hose leg of it.
It needs to be cut with a knife to leave enough of the smooth non-crinkly part to push the bleed valve you removed in step 1) back onto it (say 35mm) see pic..
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Push the bleed valve on, then the new rear s-shaped hose and route the rear hose as in the pics. The bleed valve ends up down below and roughly facing the way the old spider hose went.
3) Remove the old connection to the N249 and use the new t-piece and sections of 8mm ID hose to make the connection to the N249, rear of the manifold and new rear hose as in the pics.
4) Tighten all new jubilee clips and replace y-pipe and DV.
That's it done, no more F-hose for about £25 and an hours work.
Cheers,
Nigel.
Several hundred miles later, all seems fine and I'll do a careful check at the thousand mile mark.
