Boost or Aye Capt'n we sprung a leak....

[Brett Dikeman]

At 11:36 AM -0700 6/19/02, maximum at weetamoo.com wrote:

>I'm not so worried
>about the oil film as I believe that a little bit of this is normal.  It
>looks bad because of all the dirt stuck to the oil film but it's not
>excessive.

This joint is notorious for leaking...but not very much.  You're on
the money...the oil just accumulates slightly over time and builds up
a lot of dirt thanks to its front and center location.

I think Scotty J told me he chopped off enough plastic to give him
something to attach a large truck radiator hose to, used that to join
the metal pipe and IC.  He also said PB Blaster can be used to cause
the oring to swell; heck, maybe just substituting an ever so slightly
thicker o-ring would do it.

It is a rather clownish setup; Audi could have saved a whole lot of
trouble by simply using a regular, thick hose to connect the two, but
that would make sense(and it would be another hose to fail I guess.)

Brett
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