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flametrap questions 850

posted by  mottman on  Sun Mar 14 16:55 CST 2004
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Decided to replace my flametrap today as I was fixing some other things on the car. I had a feeling that I might not even have a flametrap in as I had been getting oil deposited on my air filter since I bought the car a little over a month ago. It turns out that the car didn't have a flametrap in. Quite a bit of sludge had accumulated in the plastic flametrap housing, so I took it out and cleaned it. Two hoses connect to it--one between a quarter and a half inch in diameter and another that is much smaller. I cleaned all the crud out, but it seems as if the little hose doesn't pass through the plastic flametrap housing. It could be that some sludge stuff has just hardened in there to the point where I couldn't fully clear it out. Where exactly does this little hose go/what purpose does it serve? Should it flow through the flametrap?

As for the completely different hose that connects to the front part of the airbox, where does it go? Will correcting the lack of flametrap problem and cleaning the related hoses out cure the problem of oil on the air filter?


Jeremy






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