Another week and certainly invoking the 80:20 rule here. But the box of heater hoses finally arrived and so it became a process of mix and match to figure out where everything went:
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Not terrible, but a pain as a bunch of them were too long and needed to be trimmed shorter, or joined in two for some reason. Plus the entire heater hose catalogue doesn’t include the feed and return to the oil cooler or the throttle body. Minor annoyances, but they are both absolutely painful to get into and I hope they never burst, as the old ones had to go back on there. The oil cooler ones will be fine as in the long run they will be replaced when i do the turbo.
Plus i put on my new Jaaaaag alternator, only to realise that it had the old style of plug, which required a plug adapter:
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Mercifully they are available off the shelf, but another couple of day wait.
Then I started bolting it all back together and one of the fuel pressure regulator bolts sheared off… Mercifully it came out with the application of a sacrificial torx bit
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After that I made up a hideous overkill of a fuel line to replace the damaged one, because getting a new fuel hose crimped up in lockdown was all but impossible, so a 200 series -6AN line it is:
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But hey, bling bling.
At which point you get to here:
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And so late one afternoon
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Still has a slight exhaust leak as the secondaries were only finger tight, and I now need to bolt together the rest of the random bits and pieces, but its pretty much good to go.