Intake Bellows Replacement
Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2023 4:24 pm
Hi All,
I used to be a big poster back in the early 2000s and i'm looking to get back into it. I have had the same 77 530i since 2001 and now that I am in my late 30s, I SHOULD have more money to work on this poor thing which has been sitting for the last 13 years unused. Anyway after dumping old gas and replacing the garbage iridium spark plugs with decent copper ones the old girl started right up. Anyways, the intake bellows attached to the AFM and TB is completely wasted. I do have a replacement, but its in a box a few hundred miles away and im not going to be able to get it for quite a while and I dont really want to buy the $80 one on Amazon. Have any of you guys used anything else as a replacement(temporarily)? Rubber pipe coupling or bellows from another car that fit?
I used to be a big poster back in the early 2000s and i'm looking to get back into it. I have had the same 77 530i since 2001 and now that I am in my late 30s, I SHOULD have more money to work on this poor thing which has been sitting for the last 13 years unused. Anyway after dumping old gas and replacing the garbage iridium spark plugs with decent copper ones the old girl started right up. Anyways, the intake bellows attached to the AFM and TB is completely wasted. I do have a replacement, but its in a box a few hundred miles away and im not going to be able to get it for quite a while and I dont really want to buy the $80 one on Amazon. Have any of you guys used anything else as a replacement(temporarily)? Rubber pipe coupling or bellows from another car that fit?