Black box

[MasterMind]

Does anybody know the purpose of the resinator box I think its called on the engine, and do you have to have it? Mine is broke up pretty bad and am told it needs to be replaced. What do any of you think?

[blageurt]

I replaced mine with a 2" OD piece of ABS plumbing pipe with cap glued to it . . . You can use PVC. Or give me your address and I'll ship you mine for about 20-30 bucks . I's a piece of crap . Some idiot engineer decided it was a good way to "eliminate droan /noise ' I like the noise. It costs about 2 bucks in pipe . For 10 bucks I'll mail you one like mine . . .

[ratio411]

Yeah, it's an intake silencer from what I understand.

It is just in the way every time I work on one of my vans,
so they get taken off ONCE, and then thrown in a cabinet.

I have a stack of them, and a stack of heat shields from over the turbo...

The PVC idea is a good one.
I happen to use an oil additive that comes in a small metal can,
that just happens to be the same diameter as the hole in the air inlet tube.

So I just take one of these empty metal cans and put them in the hole,
then clamp in place with a hose clamp.
I just make sure the can is not pushed in far enough to disrupt air flow.

That said, I think I like the plastic pipe idea... probably about 4 bux in materials.

[rpm1]

I just used the pvc cap itself. It was tight, but it went in. Closed end flush with the inside of the tube.