lol he says it only occured after the repair was odne he sayd that they also left his airbox hanging off and it was bouncing off the bonnet, the blanking kit i looked at on ebay had a new pipe for the top of the intercooler and was £25 so im going to get that for him. also i couldnt find the...

do any of you have a photo filled guide to fitting the blank or will the blanking plate come with one and also how do you flush out the intercooler? some warm water from a hose or do you need pipe cleaners or anything? cheers again

i was out just now having an ogle, and found that the top intercooler pipe looks like it has collapsed because its all kinked and so on also the bottom one has some thick gunkey oil on one end, awfly like the hose clip isn't tight enough, could this have anything to do with the turbo/ EGR thing?

discomania - i see what you meen lol and im not sure if the EGR has been blanked off, still yet to check the pipes and things because hes not in at the mo

smoke skrew? lol

cheers for the quick replies, im having a look at it for him tomorrow il have a look at the intercooler pipes and let yous know what i find any other help would be grand

hi there, im new to this group, basically my next door neighbour has a land rover defender 90 300tdi and he recently had his clutch done on it. but now it really lacks power, he says that he gets to 60 and then drops to 40 and so on and when he accelerates theres loads of black smoke from the...