AIR STARVATION ON A Mk 3 Di

[john leeman]

ONE OF THE MOST STRANGEST THINGS HAPPENED TO ME RECENTLY DRIVING MY LUTON F Reg MK3 DRIVING BACK FROM SCOTLAND, GETTING SLOWER & SLOWER UP HILLS EMPTY. JUST PUT IT DOWN TO THE ENGINE BEING NACKERED, AND HAVIND TO CHANGE IT SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. ON GETTING BACK TO BASE IN GRIMSBY. THAN A SCREECHING NOISE ON ANTHING BUT TICK OVER, I LOOKED ALL OVER THE ENGINE TRIED EVERTHING. SO TOOK IT TO A FRIEND OF MINE AT MY LOCAL FORD DEALERS, CAMSHAFT NO. WATER PUMP NO, ALTENATOR NO. ONLY THEN TOUCHED THE AIR FILTER HOUSING DID IT STOP. THE LONG TRUMPET PIECE OUT OF THE AIR FILTER ROUND BODY. WAS RUBBING TOGETHER MAKING A HIGH PITCH SCREECHING SOUND, ALSO THIS PIECE HAD FOLDED FLAT RESTRICTING THE AIR GOING INTO THE ENGINE. A QUICK CALL TO THE LOCAL SCRAPPIE, WHAT A DIFFERENCE, BACK TO ITS OLD SELF AGAIN. ie FASTER, YOU NEVER KNOW WHATS NEXT, GOOD FUN THOUGH.

[Nighthawk]

it used to be common to see an old Di with a roll of insulation tape and ½ cable ties wrapped round the inlet tube of the air cleaner box
to help cut down the noises from it, if it wasn't that it was the securing bolts coming loose and wearing their threads away.


Good old Tranny

[bortaf]

Just zip tyed my inlet pipe bloody noisy, the clips allways go on the outside of the bend before the main body of the air filter, black gaffa tape looks neater

[madmark]

yes nighthauk i have done this mod loads of times as you say the noise they make is dredfull, i wonder if fred knows this as she runs loads of that type !