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DISCUSSION => General Topics => Topic started by: jason318is on July 26, 2008, 03:46:23 AM
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Hi all,
i really need some help desperately!!
after spending 400 quid on someone to fit a new headgasket and skimming, i get the car back yesterday and after driving it a couple of miles discover that it doesnt what to idle at all and has very lumpy running.
i popped the bonnet to discover that the air hoses havent been plumbed up correctly and there's a pipe or some sort of junction missing.
i have attached a link to a picture to the area in question. could someone please tell me what parts i am missing or send a picture of what it should look like. and if possible part numbers?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28132917@N07/2703482934/
i have looked on the parts websites and cannot work out what is missing?
i can hear you all saying ' why not just take it back to the garage'....i plan too, but unfortunately the guy has buggered off on hoilday for a couple of weeks.....i'm so pissed off about it.....you take something to be fixed and it comes back with parts missing....wrong!!
please help....cheers
jason
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This may help you.
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r73/bogeyman700/318is-hose-nightmare.jpg)
good luck
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that might just get the ball rolling!!
dont suppose you could email me you lovely sketch so i can print it out a little large?
my address is jrs_2@hotmail.co.uk
thanks very much .......
jason
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That diagram came from realoem .com
Here's the link
good luck
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=AF93&mospid=47305&btnr=13_0307&hg=13&fg=15
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Do this.
http://www.m42club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2742
The missing hose should connect the idle control valve to the intake elbow between the MAF and throttle body.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/217/506865750_6961ea3ae2_o.jpg)
The mechanic connected a bunch of the hoses in correctly. Your best bet is remove the intake manifold and replace the old, cracked, taped up, bodged hoses with new pieces.
1 hose from the top of the valve cover to the the TB
1 hose from intake elbow to idle control valve to intake manifold
1 hose between coolant pipe and the side of the head.
Throw rest of the rats nest out.
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Here is also a good diagram of the vacuum pipes:
http://www.m42club.com/forums/showpost.php?p=33455&postcount=25
It looks like in Jason's case they removed the "Y" pipe (#15) and had no idea what to do with the ICV valve hose.
Jason...Have you considered just doing away with all the mess under the intake:
http://www.m42club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3621
and
http://www.m42club.com/forums/showthread.php?p=25428#post25428