Place your bets..............

Monday morning is D Day, it's in the garage & the mechanic is gonna have a proper take apart look. We
have some contenders for the water leak.

Go on, place your bets.

a. Timing chain/water pump gasket - nice & cheap to fix.

b. Core plug behind the alternator mounting brackets - reasonably easy & cheap to fix.

c. Leaking water pump bearing - more expensive due to new pump required.

d. Inlet manifold gasket could be leaking water (water cooled??) - Bit harder with a lot of fiddling
getting dearer.

e. A leaking cylinder head gasket requiring removal of the head, skimming & refitting. Also, as your in
there, you may as well get the other head done too. I'm guessing at the thick end of £500 to do the job
right?

I know where my money is going? Yours?

Not to mention the leaking front crankshaft oilseal ffs.

Come on, place your bets...............

Nige

Nige wrote:

> c. Leaking water pump bearing - more expensive due to new pump required.


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Nige wrote:

> d. Inlet manifold gasket could be leaking water (water cooled??) - Bit harder with a lot of fiddling
> getting dearer.

Been there, done that:-(

gaz

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On Sat, 6 May 2006 19:56:36 +0100, "Nige"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>c. Leaking water pump bearing - more expensive due to new pump required.

Does youre newer RR use a fancy expensive water pump then? I did the
one on my 101 recently and it was only £40 or similar from Richard.

All of the above plus a new tyre as well!

Tom Woods wrote:
> On Sat, 6 May 2006 19:56:36 +0100, "Nige"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> c. Leaking water pump bearing - more expensive due to new pump required.
>
> Does youre newer RR use a fancy expensive water pump then? I did the
> one on my 101 recently and it was only £40 or similar from Richard.

Oh yeah, about £120

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On Sat, 6 May 2006 19:56:36 +0100, "Nige"
<[email protected]> made me spill my meths when he
wrote:

>Go on, place your bets.

Some fecker looks at you the wrong way en route to the testing station
and you blow a gasket?
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