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 Post subject: Urgent help fitting new oring to heater pipe BA I6
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 11:55 am 
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Hey guys, can someone tell me how it all goes back together?

i have it all apart. not much room to move under the exhaust man. but i'll manage.

i have a new oring, and the steel shim update from ford.

this is what the pipe currently looks like:
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my question is, does it already have the shim in place? or do i add it to the front of this?

any other pointers?
regards, Michael.

 

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 Post subject: Re: Urgent help fitting new oring to heater pipe BA I6
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:58 pm 
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Remove the old oring, get some sandpaper to clean off the corrosion, put some vasoline/rubber grease on the new oring and install on pipe, making sure the oring isn't twisted. Put pipe back into water pump and fit metal retainer to hold everything in.

 

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 Post subject: Re: Urgent help fitting new oring to heater pipe BA I6
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:07 pm 
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someone should start a topic about great ideas ford decided it would keep for 30 years......

classy.....

 

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 Post subject: Re: Urgent help fitting new oring to heater pipe BA I6
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:24 pm 
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yeah I know. I was looking at it thinking how in hell is that meant to make a watertight seal and wtf is this metal sleeve going to do about it...
Got it all together again and added a ton of create-a-gasket that auto-barn recommended. here's hoping it doesn't leak again any time soon.

 

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 Post subject: Re: Urgent help fitting new oring to heater pipe BA I6
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:02 am 
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the shim actually slides inside the pipe, and has a slightly larger diametre than the original pipe does.
Reason the o'rings fail is the weight of the pipe rests on the oring which causes it to collapse/squash.
I've not really seen one leak once it'd had the sleeve fitted to the pipe
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 Post subject: Re: Urgent help fitting new oring to heater pipe BA I6
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 6:49 am 
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Oh. Ok. Cool I noticed that as well. So the weight of the pipe rests steel on steel instead of the o ring.

 

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