Grr - where can water escape invisibly from?
- ken newbold
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Thrashed it up and down the road and then parked up to have (another) good look. No steam from exhaust - I was getting burnt by gas but not scalded by steam. No heater matrix issues. No other apparent leaks that I could see.
One last possibility has occurred to me - that it's not losing water, rather this is the last of the topping-up after I emptied the coolant last weekend. I shall replace and make sure the full 6.5 litres goes in this weekend and then start watching again.....
Cheers for input folks.
One last possibility has occurred to me - that it's not losing water, rather this is the last of the topping-up after I emptied the coolant last weekend. I shall replace and make sure the full 6.5 litres goes in this weekend and then start watching again.....
Cheers for input folks.
(Red BX 1.7TZD ("Well, it is a style icon" - Tom Sheppard)) "Was", Tom, "was"
A rotten head gasket will allow water into the exhaust system or more precisely into a cylinder. Thats what I had no other symptom until we disovered number 2 full of water after a long park up.Oscar wrote:There's no gas in the coolant or in the oil, and no oil in water or vice versa. Unless there's a crack in the head letting water escape into the exhaust system - is this possible?
You probably wouldnt even notice any steam in the exhaust plume.Oscar wrote:Thrashed it up and down the road and then parked up to have (another) good look. No steam from exhaust - I was getting burnt by gas but not scalded by steam. No heater matrix issues. No other apparent leaks that I could see.
One last possibility has occurred to me - that it's not losing water, rather this is the last of the topping-up after I emptied the coolant last weekend. I shall replace and make sure the full 6.5 litres goes in this weekend and then start watching again.....
Cheers for input folks.
So you have replaced the coolant then? Did you bleed it properly? Did you open the heater matrix to warm let the water flow? You probably got an airlock in the system.
Then longer you drive with an airlock the more risk to a failure you create.
I thought I had filled it properly, but perhaps not. In any event, that doesn't explain the initial 1.5 litres we had to put in one Sunday as we headed out for a drive. This was the start of me thinking that we had a HG failure, as it coincided with clouds of white smoke out the back. The smoke was unburnt fuel, it turned out, from (probably) a sticky injector. That's pretty well clear after a bottle of redex injector cleaner. The water loss potenitally remains. I shall refill, as I said, and watch.
(Red BX 1.7TZD ("Well, it is a style icon" - Tom Sheppard)) "Was", Tom, "was"
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I've used K Seal, and it worked. I still feel guilty using it as I've always considered 'magic in a bottle' type potions to be a complete bodge. My Dad had used Radweld in a Xantia to cure the leaking heater matrix, but it didn't cure the leak and blocked the matrix. This may well work in a different matter than K Seal, and from memory it looked more gloopy before adding it to the coolant.
But have you definitely established you have a problem?
But have you definitely established you have a problem?
No Oscar you use the raw egg whiteOscar wrote:Well apart from boiled eggs anyone else used Barseal or K seal?
Oscar
But first you need to establish if you have a problem.
IF the HG is rotten adding any gunk into the engine will only put off what you need to have done for a couple of years. If it has got to be done do it properly rather than a quick fix which will casuse other issues.
These quick fix solutions were designed for people who cant afford repairs and just want to wring out a bit more life in a car.
So if that offends K-Seal users!