metal flakes in discharge tube? (with Pics)
11-20-2007, 04:52 PM
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RE: metal flakes in discharge tube? (with Pics)
Just make sure there are no particles in the head unit before you install it. Clean the whole kit good and you should be fine. A lot of shops rebuild head units as well.
11-20-2007, 06:07 PM
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RE: metal flakes in discharge tube? (with Pics)
a way you can check is to blow on the small particles if they come off without much resistance then they should be things that have fallen in there when it was stored, however if it is kinda hard it may be caused by the headunit. I would recommend since the blower is used and has 15k miles on it to have it rebuilt. It's a lot less expensive to rebuild the headunit than it is if metal bits make it into your engine.
11-20-2007, 06:39 PM
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RE: metal flakes in discharge tube? (with Pics)
A blower does not blow hard enough to embed small metal objects into another metal object. If the chips are stuck on then they were already there. Metal flakes from the blower would have blown straight through into the engine. If the flakes were from the blower they would have been aluminum anyway and wouldn't stand a chance in embeding into a metal pipe. Even if the aluminum was shaped like an arrow head and moving 10000 mph it still would have just simply flatened out when it hit the metal pipe and been blown into the motor.
11-20-2007, 06:40 PM
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RE: metal flakes in discharge tube? (with Pics)
ORIGINAL: contentsunderpressur
A blower does not blow hard enough to embed small metal objects into another metal object. If the chips are stuck on then they were already there. Metal flakes from the blower would have blown straight through into the engine. If the flakes were from the blower they would have been aluminum anyway and wouldn't stand a chance in embeding into a metal pipe. Even if the aluminum was shaped like an arrow head and moving 10000 mph it still would have just simply flatened out when it hit the metal pipe and been blown into the motor.
A blower does not blow hard enough to embed small metal objects into another metal object. If the chips are stuck on then they were already there. Metal flakes from the blower would have blown straight through into the engine. If the flakes were from the blower they would have been aluminum anyway and wouldn't stand a chance in embeding into a metal pipe. Even if the aluminum was shaped like an arrow head and moving 10000 mph it still would have just simply flatened out when it hit the metal pipe and been blown into the motor.
