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Water pipe coming off - common to anyone else??

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Has anyone else come across the problem of thei VERY IMPORTANT pipe coming off (and pulling the securing nuts and bolts with it) before?

 

I have secured it with more substantial nuts and bolts but wondered why it only happened in 1st gear.

 

SYMPTOMS: Red temperature light comes on

SOLUTION: S T O P

G E T W A T E R !!!

 

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Your front engine mount could well be gone, in first gear, accelerate hard and the engine tips back too far, pipe gets stretched and pops off.

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It's not that, cos the WHOLE mechanism comes off - not just the pipe.

 

I will take a more detailed picture of my own car tomorrow and show you EXACTLY what can go wrong..

 

the pipe comes from the rad and plugs into a plastic bit...this is bolted to another plastic bit that connects to the water bottle...the two plastic parts are noe stayong together because the retaining nut are bulling oiut of the plastic bit that they are moulded into..

...hmmm - if you can work that one out you deserve a medal !!!

 

I will take pictures like I said

 

:D

 

New fastening system means no serious threat with losing water and engine running.

 

:)

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Edited your post James so that the pic is an image rather than an inserted weblink.

 

For future reference, you just need to use:

 

[img=http://www.insert.picture.link.here.co.uk]

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Sounds like the threads in the radiator are knackered. Someone may have removed them in the past and over-tightened them.

 

As Joe said, the lower the gear, the more initial engine movement you get when taking up drive.

 

Kev

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ok - does that make a difference then (other than the little scrolling bit)?

 

thanks

 

Nah no difference other than the scrolling bit - just looks cleaner.

 

:)

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