Got the Moosey back home after the Cromer visit - and actually got her up North now.
She has a horrible jumpiness at just around 3000rpm which looking online could be down to a number of things, which could be the air system, the fuel system or the turbo system. So the easiest to start looking at is the air system. So I took the air hoses off from the turbo to the intercooler and had a check around.
No splits, which is a result. The rubber still seems quite soft and flexible so it hasn't hardened and perished.
But look at this intercooler....
It's not meant to look like that... It's clogged with soot and oil
What it's supposed to do is to take the compressed air from the turbo which will be hot because it's been compressed and run through a hot turbo. It then goes through a set of thin of tubes which are attached to thin metallic radiator fins. This then cools the compressed air - making it more dense.
This cooler, more dense air then gets pushed out the other side and into the inlet manifold where it then goes into whichever cylinder is presently in an 'intake' phase.
Cooler air burns more efficiently and delivers more power.
Insufficient air though, because of being proper clogged up, delivers significantly less power. So this needs a proper clean out...
That's more like it. You can actually see the cooling fins now
Now the Moosey Wagan should be able to get enough air into her engine to provide the power needed to get up hills!