Hi all,

The Fury build grinds ever onwards...
I've just bought a Pipercross air filter of dubious parentage. I
wasn't expecting it to have an IAT fitting but it turns out to have an
M10 fine nut welded into the neck, which'd be really handy if my Ford
sensor wasn't miles too big for it. Does anyone know which scrapyard
cars I could raid to get an M10 fine IAT sensor? Resistance value
isn't a problem. I can sort that out at the ECU.

Cheers,

Colin.

The message 
from Colin Stamp  contains these words:


> I've just bought a Pipercross air filter of dubious parentage. I
> wasn't expecting it to have an IAT fitting but it turns out to have an
> M10 fine nut welded into the neck, which'd be really handy if my Ford
> sensor wasn't miles too big for it.


Change the fitting. It can't be that hard to grind it out and weld a new
one in.

-- 
Skipweasel.
Ivor Cutler - "Never knowingly understood."

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:25:28 +0100, Guy King 
wrote:


>Change the fitting. It can't be that hard to grind it out and weld a new
>one in.


Trouble is, the neck is aluminium. The only fitting I have for the
Ford sensor is a brass insert still embedded in a chunk of Mondeo
plastic pipe. Even if I could find an aly fitting, I don't think my
MIG skills are up to welding it to the thin tube of the filter neck.
The original plan was to araldite in the lump of Mondeo plastic and it
may still come to that, but if I can find a sensor to fit the
beutifully TIGd nut that's already there, it'd look sooo much tidier.

Cheers,

Colin.

The message 
from Colin Stamp  contains these words:


> Trouble is, the neck is aluminium. The only fitting I have for the
> Ford sensor is a brass insert still embedded in a chunk of Mondeo
> plastic pipe. Even if I could find an aly fitting, I don't think my
> MIG skills are up to welding it to the thin tube of the filter neck.


You can get silverish solderysort of rods which will weld aluminium
alloy to other things.

-- 
Skipweasel.
Ivor Cutler - "Never knowingly understood."

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:16:49 +0100, Guy King 
wrote:


>You can get silverish solderysort of rods which will weld aluminium
>alloy to other things.


I've been meaning to get something like that for ages now. I didn't
realize they could do dissimilar metals. I still reckon the path of
least resistance on this particular job it just to get a sensor that
fits though.

Cheers,

Colin.

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:22:16 +0100, Colin Stamp
 wrote:


>Hi all,
>
>The Fury build grinds ever onwards...
>I've just bought a Pipercross air filter of dubious parentage. I
>wasn't expecting it to have an IAT fitting but it turns out to have an
>M10 fine nut welded into the neck, which'd be really handy if my Ford
>sensor wasn't miles too big for it. Does anyone know which scrapyard
>cars I could raid to get an M10 fine IAT sensor? Resistance value
>isn't a problem. I can sort that out at the ECU.



It's all sorted now, which is just as well since I gave the wrong size
for the thread - it's an M12, not an M10 - Doh!

Motor-serv trawled through their books for me and came up with one for
a Calibra turbo. Perfect fit and it even has the same connector as the
Ford injectors, so I've got a plug for it too :o)

Cheers,

Colin.