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On or around Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:44 +0100 (BST),
[email protected] (Niamh Holding) enlightened us thusly:

>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] (Austin Shackles) wrote:
>
>> Good idea. Mind, I can't see water escaping under pressure when it's
>> running...
>
>I have this preference to do that search round a cold engine :)

I'll give it a go, sometime, if I can invent a way of pressurising it.
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On or around Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:17:18 +0100, MVP
<mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net> enlightened us thusly:

>On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 08:19:11 +0100, Austin Shackles
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On or around Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:44 +0100 (BST),
>>[email protected] (Niamh Holding) enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>>In article <[email protected]>,
>>>[email protected] (Austin Shackles) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good idea. Mind, I can't see water escaping under pressure when it's
>>>> running...
>>>
>>>I have this preference to do that search round a cold engine :)
>>
>>I'll give it a go, sometime, if I can invent a way of pressurising it.
>
>eezibleed perhaps?
>just a thought......

great minds...

put together a couple of bits of spare small rubber pipe and a T piece, and
connected the pipe from the easi-bleed into 1 arm of the T. the other 2 in
the pipe that leads into the top of the rad.

pressurised up to 15 psi when it blows out through the lid - small leak in
the top hose-water pump joint (better jubilee clip) and a leak evident on
the thermostat housing-head joint. Arse, 'cos that requires undoing a load
of other stuff ,including the bloody P gasket bit I've just done, to get at.
Double-arse.

is that joint supposed to have a gasket, or is it a sealer job?

--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent.
I shall attack. - Marshal Foch (1851 - 1929)
 
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:08:27 +0100, Austin Shackles wrote:

> and a leak evident on the thermostat housing-head joint. Arse, 'cos
> that requires undoing a load of other stuff ,including the bloody P
> gasket bit I've just done, to get at. Double-arse.

Small leak? Radweld or similar?

--
Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail



 
On or around Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:43:59 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:08:27 +0100, Austin Shackles wrote:
>
>> and a leak evident on the thermostat housing-head joint. Arse, 'cos
>> that requires undoing a load of other stuff ,including the bloody P
>> gasket bit I've just done, to get at. Double-arse.
>
>Small leak? Radweld or similar?

never actually had any success with such things. I reckon I'll have it
apart and fix it properly.


--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt"
(confound the men who have made our remarks before us.)
Aelius Donatus (4th Cent.) [St. Jerome, Commentary on Ecclesiastes]
 
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:50:10 +0100, Austin Shackles wrote:

>> Small leak? Radweld or similar?
>
> never actually had any success with such things.

Worked extremely well on a old Hunter type Hillman Minx whose radiator
had started to develop pinholes every few weeks. One treatment no
further problem.

> I reckon I'll have it apart and fix it properly.

Well yes, radweld etc is a bodge compared to doing it properly.

--
Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail



 
On or around Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:23:46 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:50:10 +0100, Austin Shackles wrote:
>
>>> Small leak? Radweld or similar?
>>
>> never actually had any success with such things.
>
>Worked extremely well on a old Hunter type Hillman Minx whose radiator
>had started to develop pinholes every few weeks. One treatment no
>further problem.
>
>> I reckon I'll have it apart and fix it properly.
>
>Well yes, radweld etc is a bodge compared to doing it properly.

it may be that I expect too much of it - I suspect it only really works for
*very* small leaks
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to
a great lie than to a small one" Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
from Mein Kampf, Ch 10
 

>>Well yes, radweld etc is a bodge compared to doing it properly.

IMH anything that is added to the fluid to plug the leak is FTD. It will
coat the internals and cause inefficiencies that will surface later, usually
when you're far from home.


 

"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...


> Where else do you think I should look for slow water loss on a 300 TDi?

Replace the reservoir cap, it has a little relief valve type contraption in
it, common failure.

SS


 
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