blueg14rep

Great start to the year, Last night when I was driving my 95 impreza import home I noticed the heaters were not warming up at all. I looked at the temp level and it was on half like normal. Little bit later it started going up over the half way mark and wasnt stopping. So I pulled in and clouds of smoke poured out from under the bonnett, I lifted the bonnett to see if I could see where it was coming from and I seemed to be from under the resonator box/dump value area. Next minute, I have a small river coming from what seems to be the back of the engine

Anyway I got her home and topped her up with water, run her and the temp stayed under half and the heater where boiling and the dripping stoppped. I just went to have a look and the water in the tank had gone down but not a lot

Here is my first problem though, today when we removed the resonator box air box to try and make abit more room to work, but i noticed that i have broke something.
Its a small nipple that goes into what i think is the resonator at one end and what i think is the boost solinoid it is attached to the suspension turret at the other.

Can this be left open to air or does it have a more important roll and needs to be re-attached to the box??

Or is there something else I can do to sort this problem?

Any help is appreciated as yet again i will be stuck here at work untill i can get this sorted as I need to drive her up onto the ramps to have a look underneath.

Thanks Claire

Black-Hawk

iTrader: (4)

Broken nipple.................................... ..................................

amego

post a pickey

amego

not a jippsey

blueg14rep

See the little pipe sticking on the top of the right hand side of this photo, Thats what has broken off mine!

KJD Mk1

iTrader: (3)

I think quite a few have ditched the resonator but not sure what happens to the pipework.

Come on lads help Claire out here.

redwards

iTrader: (6)

Can't help you with the nipple but it sounds like you heater matrix is leaking.
Had exactly the same problem on my Focus (which is currently on the drive with the dash out of it!) I found that there is a drip tray under the matrix which catches the water and directs it of the cabin.