Re: Problems with my water works...

That sounds familiar. Do you recall when I was almost swayed by a grey

620ti? And it overheated in traffic? It had a leak from the coolant pipe near the exhaust, which kinda disconnected, hence it ran out of coolant.

Still, it looked cool[1], the 620ti in a _huge_ cloud of steam . . . :)

[1] from a certain perspective, heh!

Lordy raved thus:

:: The leak was when the car was standing still as well, incidentally. :: I'd assume a head gasket leak normally occurs whilst the engine is :: in motion (never had one go before)... ?

Dunno if this is the same in all cases, but when I've had head gaskets go it's been an internal 'blow'. So when the water is disappearing it either goes into the cylinder and out the ehxaust, or internally into the oil. So rather than noticing a leak, you see the water level dropping and wondering where it's going; until you check the oil :o)

Abo

Yea, that's what I thought.

I think this season's unuasully high temp's is taking it's toll on our cars, and really testing our cooling system's.

My aircon has been on almost perm since the hot weather began a few months ago, and this combined with the heat has brought out the flaws in the system's

Perhaps we neglect the fact that we should be using high quality antifreeze/coolent and dont get it changed often enough or flush out the system.

Thats what I recken anyway my problem is :)

Ron

I was expecting to need to be regassing the Ka's air conditioning this year, and topping up the coolant - especially after we thoroughly roasted the engine on most of the shows we went to (especially Interford, where the Ka was stationary for twenty minutes with the air conditioning on full, it icy cold in there when we eventually got in!). But, nothing, it's been as reliable as a pin.

Although some of y'all will scoff about the heat produced from a ickle 1.3 donk, the Ka's problem isn't the amount of heat produced, it's that it has almost nowhere to go, so once it gets hot, it stays hot.

Yes, that's the case 99.9999999% of the time.

All over/under the engine - it could be any of them ! Basically, you're looking at all pipes that aren't Turbo/Aircon related :)

Can't remember where the specific "very close to the exhaust" one is - but simply follow the exhaust down and it should be easy enough to see ?

Could also be the water pump - you should be able to see where the leak is coming from ?

I avoid that, cos my support has a rubber grip thing round it, so you don't have to touch the metal :)

Yours still has metal on it? :(

Our rubber stuff melted off . . .

Of course, due to Rover's premium build quality. You can't expect a little Ford to be able to compete... :)

/remembers the Rover 620ti boiling over in traffic/

Manual bonnet supports?

How common...

-- JackH

That one was fecked. The T16 Turbo lumps are pretty much bulletproof.

And yes, my anti-burn-rubber is still all present and correct :)

LOL :)

Yup. It had done a lot of miles and not seen a service bay.

Heh!

He did sell it on to some unsuspecting chap, who came back to the office a few days later _quite unhappy_ as I recall.

It's on the list of things that I'm planning to do to Kermy. All in time.