Low level air intake and shallow water

[teamster1975]

Thought about making an Insurance claim for this?

It'll get written off but you might get a hire car for a bit and some folding for the old motor?

They'll pay out for this; I got £1000 back for the old LX!!!!

[trem1]

Thought about making an Insurance claim for this?

It'll get written off but you might get a hire car for a bit and some folding for the old motor?

i got paid out on my 406 when i drove through a ford, lost most of my no-claims tho

[scotty73]

I can see an insurance loophole here lads.

[Captain Jack]

After reading a few horror stories, I have avoided any sort of floods like a plague. I was thinking of just removing the intake pipe completely and just leave a hole at the bottom of the air box.

[V6Exec]

I now have a 2.2HDi - going to rework the air intake to give better protection

[rwb]

I was thinking of just removing the intake pipe completely and just leave a hole at the bottom of the air box.

Well exactly.
Certainly the 90 must be sucking in a pitifully small charge compared to, well, any of the other engines -- some of which have smaller filters.

How does it come out?

[steve_earwig]

There's a how to at the top of every forum - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18837

If you remove this baby there's no point in taking the pipe off under the wing...

[lozz]

another one bites the dust



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-PEUGEOT- ... 19d5e9e0c2

[Busman]

another one bites the dust



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-PEUGEOT- ... 19d5e9e0c2

That could be worth a punt if you're handy with the spanners?

[sym]

After reading a few horror stories, I have avoided any sort of floods like a plague. I was thinking of just removing the intake pipe completely and just leave a hole at the bottom of the air box.

does this have any affect on performance? i chopped mine off at the bend, hopefully it give a few more inches clearance, not sure if the heat from the engine bay will affect anything in warmer temps, lee

[lozz]

another one bites the dust



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-PEUGEOT- ... 19d5e9e0c2

That could be worth a punt if you're handy with the spanners?

Yeah iagree mate,

looks a nice tidy car,
iwouid be having abid if it wasnt to far away,

the new owner will end up a member on here no doubt,

[V6Exec]

If I had the time and space I would be tempted to drop one of these back into my car

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PEUGEOT-3-0L- ... 35a3f2c81f

[steve_earwig]

That's Ade! Hold on, I thought there was a reason you couldn't convert autos to manuals on these

[Bigdipper]

Did removing the link pipe go ok ? Did it affect the car in any way ?

[scotty73]

I guess it's up to you but I suppose if it's still misfiring after you've dried everything out and changed the air filter then it will be something more serious. My next step would be a compression test but I gather getting to the plugs is quite a job to start off with on a V6

That'll do for a start, tomorrow I'll flesh it out once I've done some searching because we've talked about this problem before...

Now updated with a few links and also how to remove the link pipe below the air filter. I'd be interested to know if they're all more-or-less the same as they all seem to have different part numbers

Done my oil change today so i decided while under there to take the air intake out and relocate it in the bin

Easy enough taking the air box off and un clipping the pipe from that but it's a wiggle to get the bottom off it seems to fit into a snorkle kinda thing that routes up into the wheel arch liner.

I toyed with the idea of removing that pipe too but a few more wiggles and a bendy in towards the engine and it came out << Technical info.

Steve it looks like the same pipe with 3 holes in it...Easy to see that once full of water there's only one place for that water to go.