Car driven with no air intake...
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jimxms said:
Unmetered air entering directly around your throttle body would have caused lean situation (too much air, too little fuel) resulting in much higher combustion temps and potential engine damage.
Naaaa.....you'll be fine.
Drove round for 2 weeks with just this fault (gasket on the throttle body worked loose) including a trip from Medway to Leicester... Engine still going strong 10k miles later and still producing the same power as it did on a dyno 2 years ago...Naaaa.....you'll be fine.
Reminds me of that story on the Audi forums where someone tried sandblasting his engine internals by hooking the airpipe to a bag of sand 
You should be ok though, I assume it was disconnected but air was still being routed through the filter into the empty space your intake was sucking air from.
You should be ok though, I assume it was disconnected but air was still being routed through the filter into the empty space your intake was sucking air from.
This country is not really ever dusty enough to worry about air filters.
Probably wouldn't hurt an engine if you didn't have one. Check a dirty filter. and it's contents would be swiftly burnt and exhausted. Even the bits of leaves you sometimes find....
Unless you habitually drive on the beach!
Probably wouldn't hurt an engine if you didn't have one. Check a dirty filter. and it's contents would be swiftly burnt and exhausted. Even the bits of leaves you sometimes find....
Unless you habitually drive on the beach!
Change the oil to be on the safe side? Really?
If dirty particles drawn in through the intake system can somehow mysteriously work their way into the oil system then it'll be the same in reverse so if that's the case, I'd be less worried about bits of leaves and some bees in the oil and more worried about the 5 litres of oil that will be exiting via the exhaust shortly...
combustion mixture and oil system, two seperate systems and they only ever mix when something terminal has gone wrong such as piston rings, head gasket, valve stem oil seals and so on.
Quit worrying, she'll be a'reet!
If dirty particles drawn in through the intake system can somehow mysteriously work their way into the oil system then it'll be the same in reverse so if that's the case, I'd be less worried about bits of leaves and some bees in the oil and more worried about the 5 litres of oil that will be exiting via the exhaust shortly...
combustion mixture and oil system, two seperate systems and they only ever mix when something terminal has gone wrong such as piston rings, head gasket, valve stem oil seals and so on.
Quit worrying, she'll be a'reet!
Davie said:
Change the oil to be on the safe side? Really?
If dirty particles drawn in through the intake system can somehow mysteriously work their way into the oil system then it'll be the same in reverse so if that's the case, I'd be less worried about bits of leaves and some bees in the oil and more worried about the 5 litres of oil that will be exiting via the exhaust shortly...
Many intakes also have breathers from the engine (so they breath air which has already passed the air filter. If the breathers had come disconnected when the intake pipe fell off the throttle body then they could have pulled in some dirty particles into the oil supply.If dirty particles drawn in through the intake system can somehow mysteriously work their way into the oil system then it'll be the same in reverse so if that's the case, I'd be less worried about bits of leaves and some bees in the oil and more worried about the 5 litres of oil that will be exiting via the exhaust shortly...
RobCrezz said:
Davie said:
Change the oil to be on the safe side? Really?
If dirty particles drawn in through the intake system can somehow mysteriously work their way into the oil system then it'll be the same in reverse so if that's the case, I'd be less worried about bits of leaves and some bees in the oil and more worried about the 5 litres of oil that will be exiting via the exhaust shortly...
Many intakes also have breathers from the engine (so they breath air which has already passed the air filter. If the breathers had come disconnected when the intake pipe fell off the throttle body then they could have pulled in some dirty particles into the oil supply.If dirty particles drawn in through the intake system can somehow mysteriously work their way into the oil system then it'll be the same in reverse so if that's the case, I'd be less worried about bits of leaves and some bees in the oil and more worried about the 5 litres of oil that will be exiting via the exhaust shortly...
HustleRussell said:
RobCrezz said:
Davie said:
Change the oil to be on the safe side? Really?
If dirty particles drawn in through the intake system can somehow mysteriously work their way into the oil system then it'll be the same in reverse so if that's the case, I'd be less worried about bits of leaves and some bees in the oil and more worried about the 5 litres of oil that will be exiting via the exhaust shortly...
Many intakes also have breathers from the engine (so they breath air which has already passed the air filter. If the breathers had come disconnected when the intake pipe fell off the throttle body then they could have pulled in some dirty particles into the oil supply.If dirty particles drawn in through the intake system can somehow mysteriously work their way into the oil system then it'll be the same in reverse so if that's the case, I'd be less worried about bits of leaves and some bees in the oil and more worried about the 5 litres of oil that will be exiting via the exhaust shortly...
The same thing happened to my truck last night while driving 80mph down the highway. Now im having a whole wagon load of issues. My oil pressure gauge is hard over on high, the engine is slow to accelerate, the truck jerks when accelerating and it feels like it wont switch gears (automatic) any help?
FiF said:
HustleRussell said:
Frankly, air filters are for pussies
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