Anone else got a copper one?

[Chrisr1949]

I was fitting an accelerator cable and leaned on and cracked this plastic pipe which must have gone brittle.
Not being given to the spending of money I cast my eyes around the workshop and found a length of 8mm copper of exactly the right length. I carefully bent the pipe and just as carefully broke the clips on the air cleaner box so had to make a clip. I soldered on with high melting point solder a couple of olives close to the ends. I polished it and gave it a couple of coats of lacquer. Zero cost fix...well it was to me!

 

[DrWong]

Excellent bodging mate

 

[Mazza]

That’s not a bodge....that’s an upgrade

 

[Tom Martin]

Great work and it looks good.

 

[Grumps]

Good skills.

 

[Chrisr1949]

Thanks guys for your support, I'll wear it always. (the old ones are still the best!)

 

[Nodzed]

That's a good job, but as you were working with copper maybe a better option would be to run it along the engine bay edge as per the M and then its away from the air filter?

 

[Chrisr1949]

Thanks nodzed, interesting to see the same part on the 3.2. it just looks to me though that they ran out of room to to put it anywhere else! Which is no wonder with the 3.2. Mine is clear of anything that matters and the air cleaner clip does allow for lateral movement, so I guess i'm happy.

 

[Chrisr1949]

And it cost nowt, up north we don't like to spend us brass!

 

[mrscalex]

Don’t forget the practicalities if the air box has to come out. There are various jobs that need that.

 

[Chrisr1949]

Yeah thanks but I don't expect much in the near future which will need it's removal, only got 76k on it. Seriously though I think on the 3.2 they would worry about the engine movement under max torque stressing the pipe. My peuney 2.0 has less than half the bhp so I don't think that was a concern. I should have gone for a 2.8 but the semi detached one pi***s herself at the way I drive this one.

 

[Dickymint]

yea I was toying with the idea of "upgrading" mine with some copper/nickel pipe that I have handy simply because handling 20 year old plastic moving it out the way etc always makes me grimace slightly, not sure I'd use just copper though because of all the hot/cold cycles and the way it corrodes aka like copper on radiators, I expect copper would be ok but I have always been a bit belt and braces and then a bit of string "just in case" lol

 

[Chrisr1949]

Sorry Dickymint but I've never been aware of corrosion on copper. Surely a central heating system gets all the same hot/cold cycles without probs. Yes my pastic pipe was very fragile and I think breaking it did me a favour for a potential future failure and would recommend all with these plastic pipes to check or just replace them.