heater to manifold return hose

i have noticed a leak in the above hose at the baulkhead end ,where it
connects to the heater pipe. strange thing is it is of an oily clear subtance
when my coolant is red. it is dripping on outlet pipes and also drips on to
the rocker cover where it seems to turn in to a greeny yellow subtance
like aliens blood.:alien:

can someone confirm this is coolant or something else prehaps. also was
this pipe part of a recall once.

1995 4.6 hse

do you mean the one out of heater matrex?

yeah the right one as standing at the front of car.

that should be water i am sure it should i go out to mine and have a look for you give me 5 mins

yes its water part of cooling hope that of help

ta, dont suppose you know how much coolant i will lose by changing it
and if i will likely get an air lock???

i would take heater side off first and put new one onget some body to squeese it then do other end should not loose to much that way

Mines the same , drips down from the gearbox but is gree when g/box fluid is red.

Asked an expert what it is, as it is like oil between your fingers and he tasted it and said it was antifreeze.

Its so thick though its like oil.

Very odd!

expert that drinks atifreeze dont you think thats odd??????????? lol

changed it today with no problems. done what you said, heater side off first and quickly got new pipe on. probably lost about a pint of coolant. biggest **** off was £30 for that
and 2 breather pipes from jsf in norwich ( right rip off ). i could have got them from internet a lot cheaper but i wanted it done today so i can get back to this mpg headache.

I'm sure I've seen posts somewhere about the dangers of mixing old/new coolants resulting in a rather thick substance that can block rad cores etc. Presumably is would include heater matrixes. If this is true I hope you flushed the system fully before putting in new coolant.

no way. i had a new rad, system flushed and nice new coolant about 3 weeks ago.
i am sure that losing a pint and re topping with de-ironised water is not goung to hurt.

hunterandthehunted said:

no way. i had a new rad, system flushed and nice new coolant about 3 weeks ago.
i am sure that losing a pint and re topping with de-ironised water is not goung to hurt.

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hows that rangie going?

nathan5346 said:

hows that rangie going?

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i have been updating the hse 4.6 fuel consumption thread, but to
answer your question, i feel abit more positive about it at the
moment..
thanks

whats the MPG headache?

I have to say my 3.9 seems to use tooooo much fuel, and I am used to big fuel bills as I also drive a 4.0 v8 bmw , but this rangie is something else.

fett said:

whats the MPG headache?

I have to say my 3.9 seems to use tooooo much fuel, and I am used to big fuel bills as I also drive a 4.0 v8 bmw , but this rangie is something else.

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fett,
check out the 4.6 hse fuel consumption thread....