Originally Posted by
tabetha
I bet the leak was around the join between the pipe and ring the banjo goes through ?
Ford used some cheap nasty rubbish material when they joined these two parts together, it is too brittle and can crack.
The PERMANENT 100% EFFECTIVE cure for about £15 is to have these SILVER SOLDERED, it is called silver soldering but is actually brazing but with silver, you will not in a million years break these once joined, so find a local engineering firm that do silver soldering, or even better a retired guy that makes model steam engine/trains as this is fave way on these joining pressured fittings/pipes together, I used my ex's grandad, he makes 1 off steam trains, some taking 3-4 years, every single part hand made.
tabetha
It sure was. Bumped the end of the pipe under the turbo after a run and 'tttiiiissssss' Barely touched it, so it must have been very brittle.
Im popping into Pirtek tomorrow and see if they can make me some up with heat resistant flexible pipe with the banjos on the end.
If that fails, I will try getting them soldered.
