Why Does It Always Happen To Me

[jimmy_the_builder]

He won't Jimmy.

Why does the eingine maker make the "air filter relocation hose" kit in both reinforced and non reinforced rubber? (This isn't just a straight bit of hose chopped off a reel: it's moulded to shape and has a part number). Why would they make the non reinforced version at all? As some kind of practical joke?

It's a bit odd, innit - I spose I think it's quite rude to simply not reply to posts, particularly in threads that you've started yourself. A few months ago I wondered if I'd spotted Assassin's P64 in Brighton but he didn't bother responding to that either. I wonder what the problem is?

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

It's a bit odd, innit - I spose I think it's quite rude to simply not reply to posts

Sounds like there's some history going on here but in assassin's defence, I don't know about anyone else, but the forum's e-mail notification system seems to work totally ramdomly for me. Sometimes I get notifications of replies to my posts and sometimes I dont and often I don't see some replies until later by chance

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Sounds like there's some history going on here but in assassin's defence, I don't know about anyone else, but the forum's e-mail notification system seems to work totally ramdomly for me. Sometimes I get notifications of replies to my posts and sometimes I dont and often I don't see some replies until later by chance

Fair point. Funnily enough, I didn't get a notification of this (your) reply! Oddly I sometimes also get duplicate notifications.

Cheers
Jimmy

PS totally off topic, fancy a rapid dash down to the Alps on the GS next week? Prolly going Wednesday...

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

PS totally off topic, fancy a rapid dash down to the Alps on the GS next week? Prolly going Wednesday...

Very tempting but I'm actually on the boat next week Hows the GSA going?

 

[jfm]

You can be quite sure that Assassin wont post any more at all on this thread now that the, er, possibly slight "inaccuracy" of his original story has been alluded to. It's obviously not the first time he has done this.

rapid dash down to the Alps on the GS next week? Prolly going Wednesday...

Will you keep going as far as the coast?

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Hows the GSA going?

Absolutely loving it. Completely did the right thing to bin the Multistrada in favour of the GSA.

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[MapisM]

Why does the eingine maker make the "air filter relocation hose" kit in both reinforced and non reinforced rubber?

Because the builder probably makes neither.
I mean, surely those hoses are made by some OEM supplier, possibly from China or wherever, not directly by the engine maker.
Not having a proper QC system is still the builder's fault, though.

What I find more intriguing in the whole story is the absence of any fault code.
I'd expect any modern engine to store the loss of air flow with some error code.

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Will you keep going as far as the coast?

I just wrote detailed answer on this but realised it was a case of too much information! I'll send you a pm.

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[MapisM]

Needless to say I was not asked to look at his replacement!

I don't understand that. Is that chap masochistic, or what?

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Absolutely loving it. Completely did the right thing to bin the Multistrada in favour of the GSA.

Cheers
Jimmy

Excellent!

 

[jfm]

Because the builder probably makes neither.
I mean, surely those hoses are made by some OEM supplier, possibly from China or wherever, not directly by the engine maker.
Not having a proper QC system is still the builder's fault, though.

What I find more intriguing in the whole story is the absence of any fault code.
I'd expect any modern engine to store the loss of air flow with some error code.

Yes, sure, an OEM supplier makes the parts, not the actual engine builder, but drilling down into that particular point of detail is irrelevant. These parts, whover actually makes them, get an engine builder's part number so the question remains why the engine builder apparently creates a system where there are two parts with two part numbers, one of which works and the other of which doesn't. There is no need actually to answer that Mapis, because it is all wholly implausible, as is the lack of airflow fault code. (Are you getting my drift?)

 

[MapisM]

Got it. Do you mean it's not worth arguing also about how unlikely it is that the pipe sucks itself in also with no resistance at all to the air flow - as when the filter was removed...?

PS: though actually I didn't read of two different P/Ns, just of one "bad" part shipped with the correct P/N...

 

[jfm]

Got it. Do you mean it's not worth arguing also about how unlikely it is that the pipe sucks itself in also with no resistance at all to the air flow - as when the filter was removed...?

Quite. I noticed that error at the beginning, but hey if every piece of implausibility were pointed out this would be a very long thread.

PS: though actually I didn't read of two different P/Ns, just of one "bad" part shipped with the correct P/N...

That is correct. The part number mentioned relates only to the reinforced item. But we are not talking about pieces of round tube cut off a roll here; we're talking about shaped/moulded parts. So if there was an unreinforced rubber tube that actually fitted it means it was made specially as an air filter relocation item, which kinda means there will be a part number. But don't over analyse this, because of course there are no real part numbers or parts or engines in this entire thread!

 

[Assassin]

I see the conspiracy theorists are out in force again, particularly JFM.

In point of fact, i have been concerned with more pressing issues, mainly my other half's father who at 85 was involved in a serious road accident last week and died yesterday, so perhaps you may all like to chew over this as well.

The boat was a home built steel craft with Cummins QSK motors which he marinised himself, so did not use a lot of original components on the original engine conversion when they were converted.

 

[MapisM]

I see the conspiracy theorists are out in force again

Since I suppose you might see myself as one of the conspirators, fwiw that wasn't my intention.
I'm just used to call a spade a spade, that's all.
And regardless of all that, I'm really sorry for the tragic loss your other half is suffering.
That's the sort of things which can keep any forum debate in perspective.