Advice gratefully excepted

[canonc]

Decided to go the way of many Chim owners and bought the Act trumpets and SC Power spacer and gasket. Removed the plenum and saw a lot of lose silicon bits over the base. The four centre trumpets had been silicones in place, but a few of the trumpets were lose. Decide to remove the base and with the help of the oven removed all the trumpets with no trouble.
But on cleaning the the base ports I could see that there was a crack in the thin edge of the the base and down one of the ports. This had been glued back in place.
Question...if I fit the Act trumpet in this port would without silicone would I have a problem sealing it? What are my options?

[SILICONEKID345HP]

canonc said:

Decided to go the way of many Chim owners and bought the Act trumpets and SC Power spacer and gasket. Removed the plenum and saw a lot of lose silicon bits over the base. The four centre trumpets had been silicones in place, but a few of the trumpets were lose. Decide to remove the base and with the help of the oven removed all the trumpets with no trouble.
But on cleaning the the base ports I could see that there was a crack in the thin edge of the the base and down one of the ports. This had been glued back in place.
Question...if I fit the Act trumpet in this port would without silicone would I have a problem sealing it? What are my options?

They don`t glue in with silicone .

[s p a c e m a n]

[canonc]

Thanks for the reply. The silicon was smothered around the top base/ trumpet. Also at the bottom of the trumpet the glue look different in colour to the others. I'm just worried that if I use the Act trumpets they won't make a good seal. Perhaps that's why someone decided to black silicon them in.

[canonc]

Wow...not as bad as those Spaceman. But quite a bit of black silicone bits in there. I'm not sure of this chip on the edge!

[brett84]

don't the ACT trumpets come with the correct silicon? I thought I read somewhere they did but sometimes people didn't use it (i.e. picture above)

[canonc]

Yes it does Brett 84. I was worrying about the chipped part of the base and whether or not It would seal. The person who did the last job must have had doubts or he perhaps would not have used the silicon

[FlipFlopGriff]

Speak to Tim at ACT as he'll give you the definitive answer.
FFG

[SILICONEKID345HP]

You can buy them already glued in on a part exchange basis .

[canonc]

Thanks both for the reply. I will give Tim a ring later today. But as for the part exchange, I thought of that but I don't know if they would except a repaired and botched up port!