Guitarlooney Posted May 23, 2015 Report Share Posted May 23, 2015 Evening peeps, been helping my pal with changing his engine, or rather trying to sort out the teething problems. It's been idling around 3k and we removed the throttle body to find the intake full of coolant. Can anyone shed some light as to why? The pipe work looks correct but if anyone knows of any pipe work diagrams? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleario Posted May 23, 2015 Report Share Posted May 23, 2015 You may get more help if you let us know what model and engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarlooney Posted May 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2015 Oh yeah haha, thought I posted in gen7 specific, also brain is fried spending 5 hours trying to see what pipe goes where. It's a gen7 vvtl-i Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ams Posted May 23, 2015 Report Share Posted May 23, 2015 (edited) So I'm guessing you have put the water pipe where the breather pipe should be - can you post some pictures Lucky you havent hydrolocked it - quite suprised how it hasn't actually Edited May 23, 2015 by ams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleario Posted May 23, 2015 Report Share Posted May 23, 2015 the only pipes i can think you could possibly mix up are the 2 smaller ones going to the coolant bottle. One comes from the throttle body and the other I can't remember of the top of my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarlooney Posted May 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2015 I'll try and get some up for you as soon as I can but its so tight it's hard to fit my fingers in! (Sure there's an innuendo somewhere lol) And yeah, he's really lucky! Thankfully it hasn't been driven and was just trying to bleed coolant through from a leak from the heater pipes on the bulk head. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Chris_ Posted May 24, 2015 Report Share Posted May 24, 2015 It's likely the throttle body has a couple of outlets to go in the water circuit for heating these are usually small like vac pipes. It's quite likely you have one of these swapped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarlooney Posted May 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2015 Well that's a possibility as my car came with a k&n typhoon so I was ignoring the smaller pipes! Does this pipe happen to be one that is similar in size to the pipe going to the air box? He had a pipe that looked like half a square just hanging. I'll give him shout for the pictures today as well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef-b Posted May 24, 2015 Report Share Posted May 24, 2015 the pipe like "half a square" if it goes to a nipple (titter) at the front right corner of the intake manifold them leave it alone as long as the open end it's blanked off - it's a vacuum line that goes from the intake manifold to the secondary air injection. Well that's if i'm deciphering your messages correctly lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarlooney Posted May 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2015 Yeah you're deciphering right because my nipple is bunged. Might go see a doctor haha. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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