Dirty intake boot!

[ralexander03@snet.net (Rick Alexander)]

The short answer is yes.

The long answer is not likely since the only place this could be coming from
is the mixture adjustment screw and that is not a very large opening. The
danger of running without an air filter is to the valves. Dust gets in there
and gets ground into the seats and valve seating areas. I'd guess that what
you had to clean out of the air box was greasy. If that is the case then
your likelihood of having caused damage is reduced as the damage would come
from free floating dust. That oil moisture all over the inside of the air
tract would act as your friend in this case and collect a lot of the dust.

Just seal it up good and run it.

Rick Alexander
'87 MKII Rolling Roc
'86 Cabbie
'81 "S" MKI G60 in progress
'80 MKI (Parts)
'73 Baja Challenge car
'65 Brubaker Box
'62 Tuff Tubb dune buggy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan H" <rhock99@epix.net>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: Dirty intake boot!


> Relatively new air filter (K&N) and brand new crankcase and IAS hoses...
Plus, I shined a light down there and you can barely make out the allen head
screw with all the dirt that's on it.
> Regardless of how it happened, I'm interested to know if it could have
caused any damage to my engine?
> >
> > From: "Allyn" <amalventano@sc.rr.com>
> > Date: 2002/10/28 Mon PM 11:22:30 EST
> > To: "Ryan H" <rhock99@epix.net>,  <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Subject: Re: Dirty intake boot!
> >
> > i doubt that the crap in the boot was from that 1/4" hole. more likely
from a
> > crapped up air filter or broken/cracked crankcase vent line.
> > Al
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ryan H" <rhock99@epix.net>
> > To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 10:48 PM
> > Subject: Dirty intake boot!
> >
> >
> > > Took off my intake boot today, and the inside of it was very dirty...
I just
> > cleaned the grease out of it recently, though.  Then I noticed that my
plug for
> > mixture adjustment was gone, so I've been sucking some unfiltered air.
Now, it
> > wasn't ridiculously bad, but does anyone think I might have caused any
engine
> > damage?
> > >
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