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HELP! Where is this air leak coming from? *Pics*

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Old Aug 22, 2009 | 12:13 PM
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HELP! Where is this air leak coming from? *Pics*

My car has randomly been going into limp mode lately and from what I've read here its a leak or the dv's. I have bailey dv's so I don't think its them. I pressurized the system at 15psi and it sounds like I've got a leak way in the back drivers side (back=towards front of the car). I reached my hand back as far as I could but couldn't feel anything. What might leak back there, I don't see a bunch of vacuum lines??

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See below, it was the 1/4" hose to the back DV.
 

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Old Aug 22, 2009 | 12:19 PM
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well i guess I just had to step back a minute, while it sounds further back I contorted my hand in around the dv's and its definitely leaking in that area. I don't think its the DV's themselves, maybe the f-hose. I' going to take apart what I can and tighten stuff up.

The Bailey DV's are a few years old, I've heard DV's need to be serviced every now and then, what does that involve for those?
 
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Little suggestion. I did my DV's lately and lower the engine to get more space to work. It is easy and provide you with so much space.... As per "rolfjan" suggestion.....
 
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The 1/4" hose going to the top of the rear DV was split at the T connection. It literally just kinda fell off as I tried to move the hose a little. The DV's I have are baileys and dont have the 90* turn on the top, so getting to that 2nd one would be quite the hassle to replace the hose. Soooo, there was plenty of play so I cut off the split section and just tied it back in. Did another leak test and no sound



Cut the split section off and reconnected:


 

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Little suggestion. I did my DV's lately and lower the engine to get more space to work. It is easy and provide you with so much space.... As per "rolfjan" suggestion.....
can you post a link to this please so i can see full size pics etc
 
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Good job! Interesting discovery....
 
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can you post a link to this please so i can see full size pics etc

there it is https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...tt-engine.html
 
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thank you, bailey dv's arriving shortly so this will be very helpfull
 
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