A leak has emerged around the octopus region in the Break. Examination starts by taking off the lower engine mount, and moving the engine a few cm forward..
..and clearly enough, the leak return pipe from the front height corrector is about to snap at the usual location.
In order to remove the octopus, the front suspension breather pipes must be taken off..
..which requires removal of the support clamps..
..after which the hose can be removed.
In order to facilitate later installation of the new octopus, a 2,5 mm2 wire is attached to the hose..
..which is subsequently pulled..
..off.
The front suspension breather pipes, as well as the rear suspension return pipes are taken off the octopus body..
..as are the three pipes connecting the octopus to the LHM reservoir.
Each return hose gets his own wire..
..and the hoses are then pulled off.
The last thing to undo is the broken hose coming from the front height corrector.
Since there were no reserve octopi on the shelf (and it is weekend)..
..a substitute cephalopodus well be engineered. Since the original creature consists of three separate circuits..
..the substitute one will be made of..
..three parts. The top one is for the height corrector (front & rear) and pressure regulator leakage and is made of 4 mm pipe, the center one is for the front suspension breathers (5 mm pipe) and the bottom one for the suspension leakage pipes (4 mm pipe).
The aforementioned is also the order of installation. The first one goes first.
The hose is pulled utilizing the wire..
..and is attached to the reservoir.
The shorter ends are subsequently fastened to correct locations.
The 5 mm breather assembly goes next..
..gets pulled by its own wire..
..and attached to the correct junction.
The last one is a bit more complicated..
..as it has a full-length tenlacle in both port and starboard direction.
After fitting the last piece of the three-part cephalopodus..
..the engine lower mount is re-attached..
..and a modified clamp is made..
..to keep all the tentacles of the new design clear from the starboard side inner driveshaft joint.
After checking that all is clear and all hoses properly fixed, the engine is started and allowed to build pressure. The leak appears to have disappeared.
