Water leak. Oh bugger.
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Water leak. Oh bugger.
Noticed yesterday a spec of water on the floor in my garage when I went to put my car away when I got home from work last night.
Thought I'd check my water levels. Was a little low but nothing to serious. So topped up with water with around 85ml/100ml. Pumped the top rad pipe and levels of water moved. So went in side.
I thought at first it was from the heater matrix pipe as I had to move them slightly to allow the FMIC pipe work on.
However, driving into work this morning noticed a faint smell of coolant. So sparked a *** and had a look.
Went under the car and noticed about the size of a 2p coin spot on the floor coming from the back of the engine pretty much below the turbo. Took a further look around the area notcied some dried up coolant. How old or new it is I couldn't tell you. All noticed some dried up coolant on the back of the block by the gearbox housing.
I'm thinking the pipe on the turbo could be leaking a little? But if it is not the pipe would it be say a washer gone on the turbo cooling pipe?
My pipe on turbo to header tank is just heater pipe as I couldn't get a new pipe at that angle due to the MD321T so is being held on with jubilee clips and to be honest don't know if I can make them any tighter.
Noticed every now and then mostly on days of when the ALS is used on hard drives a bit of coolant on the header tank by the turbo pipe to overflow. Any ideas?
I check things like overflow tank etc regular so want some input ASAP.
We are down to one car at home at the moment as I broke my misses windscreen and they turned up with the wrong windscreen yesterday so need this sorted ASAP.
Cheers
Steve
Thought I'd check my water levels. Was a little low but nothing to serious. So topped up with water with around 85ml/100ml. Pumped the top rad pipe and levels of water moved. So went in side.
I thought at first it was from the heater matrix pipe as I had to move them slightly to allow the FMIC pipe work on.
However, driving into work this morning noticed a faint smell of coolant. So sparked a *** and had a look.
Went under the car and noticed about the size of a 2p coin spot on the floor coming from the back of the engine pretty much below the turbo. Took a further look around the area notcied some dried up coolant. How old or new it is I couldn't tell you. All noticed some dried up coolant on the back of the block by the gearbox housing.
I'm thinking the pipe on the turbo could be leaking a little? But if it is not the pipe would it be say a washer gone on the turbo cooling pipe?
My pipe on turbo to header tank is just heater pipe as I couldn't get a new pipe at that angle due to the MD321T so is being held on with jubilee clips and to be honest don't know if I can make them any tighter.
Noticed every now and then mostly on days of when the ALS is used on hard drives a bit of coolant on the header tank by the turbo pipe to overflow. Any ideas?
I check things like overflow tank etc regular so want some input ASAP.
We are down to one car at home at the moment as I broke my misses windscreen and they turned up with the wrong windscreen yesterday so need this sorted ASAP.
Cheers
Steve
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