Had a little tinker with the TXD yesterday, the weather was quite beautiful down here so I decided housy jobs can wait! I thought i'd try to investigate this poor starting some of you may have read about in the technical section. Funny thing is, it has started perfectly since last Thursday, so not sure what was going on there.
I had all of the air intake pipes off and the intercooler for cleaning. Probably should have bought a new D shaped gasket for the 'cooler but the old one wasn't too bad, i've added it to the shopping list along with other GT things (poor, GT, haven't done anything with it for ages). All the pipes had some oil and grunge inside them, some alot worse than others, oddly I was expecting the intercooler-boost compensator hose to be clogged but this was the cleanest.
Doesn't this look bad? This is the intercooler-boost comp hose, after figuring out how to get the funny clip off (used mole grips in the end and pinched the sticking out bit) had to really wriggle and cajole the thing before it would move, hence the tear in the pipe. BUT, it wouldn't have torn if there wasn't an imperfection/split/hole in the first place, now would it? So I trimmed it back a bit, cleaned it and put it back on. Only thing is I couldn't get the funny clip done back up, so at the moment it's just sitting there - it's that tight a fit though that I doubt it'll come off. I'll have to go find a dinky jubilee.
This is either the oil filler-round thingy (Mick! I have one on my TXD!) or round thingy-air box hose, very oily they both were. Anyone know what the round thingy is? When I blew through it and passed water through it something rotated when it passed through one way, but not the other.
Round thingy, mounted on the RHS of the intercooler. Slots into a metal clip and connects the oil filler and the air box.
Oilyness of the turbo air intake pipe just after the flexy section, this I didn't remove cos it looked like a right PITA to get the other end off, I didn't look, but from previous endeavors I know just how limited access in the turbo area, so didn't bother! Should really have done, but I only had an afternoon and needed to use the car this morning.
Clean intercooler! Yes, I know, it's not that clean, but it's the best I could do with the materials to hand. I used the kitchen sink, fairy liquid and the hot tap. Managed to avoid getting told off too

Steve walked in just as I was cleaning up the mess i'd made, 10 minutes previous and I think he'd have been upset!
I also had a look at looking at the boost compensator thingy on the pump. How on earth do you investigate this? Unless there is a bolt/nut or something under the end cap I couldn't see any way of taking it apart. One thing I did notice though, is that the whole module would rotate a little when I was putting the hose back on - this can't be good? I probably should have consulted HBOL, but it was at the GT garage 10 miles away, and the TXD had no intake system on it...
So still need to look at the boost compensator diaphragm, the MOT is due at the end of November, and my local BX man said it may not be worth repairing depending on the extent of welding needed - this is something I will decide though. Not him. So we're going to put it in for a MOT at the beginning of November and they'll give me a price for the work needed.