Been putting it off for a while now, the Austin is so much more fun to work on than TPW, but as silje and the girls will be driving down to Ff in a week or so i thought i should make a proper effort to find the cause of the engine warning light that has been re-offending, every time I connect it to the PC and turn it off it comes back again within 50kms or so. It's nothing serious otherwise i would have done this sooner, but it needed doing. So a proper root around in the engine bay (after first removing the plastic engine cover, which i later managed to snap, doh!) revealed, as the diagnostic on the PC suggested, a couple defect vacuum hoses. I also found this \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/
a broken crank case breather pipe.
Ahhhh HA!
didn't have anything really suitbale for the breather pipe and it probably costs a small fortune at the stealership so i just bodged it together again (oddly, no picture). I'll have to get some more silicone tube of the right size to do it properly. Replaced the vacuum lines with some silicone tubing, so in theory they should now outlast the car. Connected the PC and cleared the faults again.
Two hours work to replace this, grrrr, modern cars. Now warning light free again, just hope it lasts this time.
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