I decided to clean my engine bay up a bit today, since I have never done it before. I nipped to Halfords and grabbed some AG Engine & Machine Cleaner, left the engine to cool for about an hour and then went at it.

Anyway, whilst cleaning I decided to see if I could un-retro-mod a few things I have the PD160 intake, and this rubs against one of those hoses. It's been posted on here before - I think someones rubbed all the way through and the hose started leaking. I had taped some lovely green foam around the hose to stop it rubbing in the past.

I think I stumbled across a really simple solution though - only took a couple of years. Simply unclip this from the hose on the other side:

Twist it around, and clip it on to the hose that would rub against the intake:

It does mean that the other hose is now free to move around, but I couldn't see that one being free causing any harm...?

I had also gaffa taped up the hole which is left from doing the CCV mod. It did the job, but it was a bit unsightly. I popped to B&Q and grabbed 22mm plastic chair leg end cover things. I left the connector part on, so if you remove this connector you probably want something more like 24/25mm. Fits over it perfectly. I now need to get me some black cable ties and black 19mm oil hose (not sure where from?) so I can get rid of the washing machine pipe for the CCV hose

It's not super clean, but much better than before I need to get some of that plastic / vinyl / rubber treatment stuff to go over all the plastics still.

That's all.

Good work on the clean up, I may have a look at that clip for moving the hose out the way of intake altho its currently cable tied and i think it looks ok... still not checked to see if its stopped it from rubbing.

What FMIC do you have fitted SS?

Good work on the clean up, I may have a look at that clip for moving the hose out the way of intake altho its currently cable tied and i think it looks ok... still not checked to see if its stopped it from rubbing.

What FMIC do you have fitted SS?

I ran mine for a week(?) without doing anything way back when it was fitted, and it had rubbed noticeably. Worth checking up to see how it is me thinks. Cable tie should work I would think?

Yeah it is the SS. Father had a go at spraying the top part of it black when we fitted it to try and help blend in... didn't really work. It really needs some wire wool scrubbing action lol

I ran mine for a week(?) without doing anything way back when it was fitted, and it had rubbed noticeably. Worth checking up to see how it is me thinks. Cable tie should work I would think?

Ran mine for 5 years before I got round to cable-tieing it . It's rubbed noticeably, but nowhere near through it.