TDI engine protection

On or around Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:44 +0100 (BST), snipped-for-privacy@4x4cymru.spamtrapped.co.uk (Niamh Holding) enlightened us thusly:

I'll give it a go, sometime, if I can invent a way of pressurising it.

eezibleed perhaps? just a thought......

Regards. Mark.

On or around Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:17:18 +0100, MVP enlightened us thusly:

great minds...

put together a couple of bits of spare small rubber pipe and a T piece, and connected the pipe from the easi-bleed into 1 arm of the T. the other 2 in the pipe that leads into the top of the rad.

pressurised up to 15 psi when it blows out through the lid - small leak in the top hose-water pump joint (better jubilee clip) and a leak evident on the thermostat housing-head joint. Arse, 'cos that requires undoing a load of other stuff ,including the bloody P gasket bit I've just done, to get at. Double-arse.

is that joint supposed to have a gasket, or is it a sealer job?

Small leak? Radweld or similar?

On or around Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:43:59 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice" enlightened us thusly:

never actually had any success with such things. I reckon I'll have it apart and fix it properly.

Worked extremely well on a old Hunter type Hillman Minx whose radiator had started to develop pinholes every few weeks. One treatment no further problem.

Well yes, radweld etc is a bodge compared to doing it properly.

IMH anything that is added to the fluid to plug the leak is FTD. It will coat the internals and cause inefficiencies that will surface later, usually when you're far from home.

Replace the reservoir cap, it has a little relief valve type contraption in it, common failure.

SS

IIRC the here kit wasn't expensive