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Old 15th April 2018, 10:01 AM
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Its impossible to get to them from under the car as the gearbox and exhausts are in the way. If you have small arms and don't mind a few scratches then its just possible to get to the driver's side one from behind the engine. You need to remove the air intake duct between the air filter and throttle body boot, and unbolt the O2 sensor bracket from the bulkhead and its just possible to reach the end and give it a squeeze to see if any schmutz comes out. I haven't found a way to get to the other one though.
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Old 15th April 2018, 11:14 AM
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As I think I've posted elsewhere my ongoing solution to the scuttle drains is a length of flexible transparent tubing that is curled up on top of the ECU box cover.
(It actually came from an old beer and wine kit!)
The "business end" I have worked down fairly deep into the bottom of the scuttle and secured with a cable tie. I then use it to do two things:
1. Just as a syphon (it's long enough unfurled to reach over the side down below scuttle level) suck up some of the liquid until I can get a syphon going to drain most of it out.
2. As an agitator. After syphoning off the top layers add hot water and detergent then by sucking and blowing agitate the mess that's in there (usually mostly rotted leaves) and syphon off what I can.
3. Repeat the syphon/agitate process until it suddenly flushes away through the drains. Follow up with large quantities of hot soapy water to really clean it out.
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Old 15th April 2018, 12:49 PM
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As I think I've posted elsewhere my ongoing solution to the scuttle drains is a length of flexible transparent tubing that is curled up on top of the ECU box cover.
(It actually came from an old beer and wine kit!)
The "business end" I have worked down fairly deep into the bottom of the scuttle and secured with a cable tie. I then use it to do two things:
1. Just as a syphon (it's long enough unfurled to reach over the side down below scuttle level) suck up some of the liquid until I can get a syphon going to drain most of it out.
2. As an agitator. After syphoning off the top layers add hot water and detergent then by sucking and blowing agitate the mess that's in there (usually mostly rotted leaves) and syphon off what I can.
3. Repeat the syphon/agitate process until it suddenly flushes away through the drains. Follow up with large quantities of hot soapy water to really clean it out.
Are you sure you're not brewing your own distinctive beer in there Andrew, by the sound of those instructions.

I could never get plastic tubing to work, which is why I used copper pipe, like brake pipe. It's flexible enough, but it keeps its shape pretty well whilst being worked around, so I try to bend it to shape before hand to try and get it into place. It's just time consuming.
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Old 15th April 2018, 02:00 PM
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So I don't think it is blocked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS8w6JqsaJU

It was dry as bone down there until I put a couple of gob fulls of water down there, at which point you can see it all come out the bottom of the car. You're right that plastic tubing is perfect. I actually went down there with an endoscope. All looks pretty clean.

Given I've done all the other drains it must of been the scuttle drains overflowing into the cabin?
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