biketeacherdave
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Mine was doing that turned out to be head gasket
how many days coolant and oil leak free have you been ?
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td5nut
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oil and leak free for about 3 months,but.............a screenwash pipe has started to leak down the left side of the engine and I can`t see where its leaking from
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Coolant years.
Oil 0
Fuel is now 0. Managed to drop 20 litres of fuel yesterday. Going to try and trace it today. I think either spill of pipes. Well I hope it is them. Otherwise it is £600 on injectors.
If you dropped 20 litres it's more than a spill pipe unless it has become totally disconnected and you were on a very long run.
That is what happened. I don't know how, probably snagged it when I was changing glowplugs and running has popped it off. But I did my 250 mile drive home, stopped outside a shop to get some food and noticed a huge puddle, realised it was derv. Was only 800 metres from home so drove there and put a pan under until this morning.
Number 1 and 4 were swimming in fuel. Dried it out. Fired up the engine and you could see it ****ing out. Tried pushing the pipes on tighter but no joy. A lot of other pipe in that area (vacuum pipe for EGR for example) are rotten and crumble away, so I assume the spill pipes look the same under that fabric.
Now I have the problem of trying to find some new pipe. Tried the only parts place in town but they have no spill pipes and only silicon they have is 5mm I/D which IIRC is too big. Going to get a lift to Halfords tomorrow, see if they have anything.
biketeacherdave
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Rodger. Will borrow a car and go on a road trip to my nearest store.
Ah right, I recall seeing a thread on here some time ago and everyone was raving about silicone. Will stick to spill pipe. Thanks for the pointer.
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Mine has been drip free for around 3 weeks now, ever since I drained the oil, power steering fluid and coolant to replace a few pipes and hoses.
Hopefully will remain so once I get round to filling them all up again!
Hopefully will remain so once I get round to filling them all up again!
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When I did my leak off pipes 2 were split at the end .On the new ones I used heat shrink tube collars to try and keep the ends tight and prevent splitting
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Fooking hell, spotted 2 small patches 10p piece sized under the centre of the 'der at home and now they are in my parking space at work...only slightly and after its warmed up.
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I think that is considered "dry" for a V8. Worrying if it is the tractor.
biketeacherdave
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Reset
Half a day as I did my heater matrix o rings this morning.
Half a day as I did my heater matrix o rings this morning.
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No, you're still good.
Under the "Toric" ruling, deliberately draining the system down for maintenance doesn't count as a leak.
I still have some anti-corrosion coming from the front somewhere, and the rear seal has been weeping for years. One day I'll get round to it. One day.
Under the "Toric" ruling, deliberately draining the system down for maintenance doesn't count as a leak.
I still have some anti-corrosion coming from the front somewhere, and the rear seal has been weeping for years. One day I'll get round to it. One day.
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Time to reset the clock for me too.
Green liquid spotted on the driver footwell carpet this morning. Damn.
Green liquid spotted on the driver footwell carpet this morning. Damn.
biketeacherdave
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Still leak free so when it warms up I'm fitting my LPG kit
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Water tight again as of 11am this morning.
Managed to blow the HEVAC screen bulbs in the process though. Not sure how that happened, but that will be the next job!
Managed to blow the HEVAC screen bulbs in the process though. Not sure how that happened, but that will be the next job!
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Check you didn't knock the dimmer switch on the stalk.
