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Hi All,
After a 400 mile round trip to Cornwall the van developed an oil leak. After much sucking of teeth I decided to gunk off the the underside to see where it was and it transpired to be the bottom of the metal turbo oil feed pipe (oil filter to turbo).

A company called Hyphose (Southampton, Portsmouth & Poole) made me a replacement while I waited for £15 + vat.

The removal and replacement of the hose took me all of 15mins , The removal and replacement of the underside engine shrouding took me half a bloody day

My question is, am I alone in bothering with this metal work or is it an essential part of the engine?

Have you got any photo's of said shrouding?? I had a similar problem with my oil feed pipe about a month ago and didn't have any problems removing or refitting the broken one as there was no shrouding in the way! What year is yours?

Genuine VW ones from VW are £16....

Turbokomet wrote: The removal and replacement of the hose took me all of 15mins , The removal and replacement of the underside engine shrouding took me half a bloody day

My question is, am I alone in bothering with this metal work or is it an essential part of the engine?

I have never refitted mine (under tray) for a NA diesel - but there isnt much to go wrong or get covered in road muck. Trouble with the JX is that the turbo and the oil feed pipe are down there - and dont really want those exposed to the elements.

Im going to refit mine - once you know where the bolts are its not really an issue. (10 minute job).

Ringo

All my sheilds have long gone.
Previous owners removed them.
Never had a problem in the 6 years i've owned it.