Vacume Leak And Boosting

[Betz]

I just spent what felt like an eternity in hell changing all the water hoses on my BNR32.

This involved taking off the inlet manifold (a nightmare just by itself) and then bludgeoning, stabbing, cutting, spearing etc myself to death for hours on end to get to and change all the cooling system and heater hoses...

upon reassembly I had a fair bit of trouble with the far bottom nut anf thierd from the back lower manifold nuts.

so much trouble that there is now a collection of sockets, nuts, washers and even a cupple of magnets sitting somewhere in the creavaces of the engine bay.

Fun times.

In the end I could not get those 2 nuts done up and will attack them with gusto at a later date.

I have fired the car and tested the cooling system and there are no leaks thank <insert diety here>

however it seems I have a vacume leak as the car is hunting at idle.

I dont plan to drive it while it is like this (except maybe to somewhere with a hoist)

can there be damage done by driving or running the car like this?

will it lean out and melt a piston down or somthing disasterous like that??

cheers for any help on this, and a note for anyone wanting to change thier hoses at home... be prepared for hours and hours of realy annoying and fiddly work..

Betz

Edited April 30, 2008 by Betz