24-06-2014, 06:49 PM
Update:
Well today has been interesting, this afternoon I dropped the front subframe and lower tie bars to replace the rubber bushes with superflex race spec. Very proud of myself for doing it all on my own.
Having opened the bonnet though I noticed that the coolant I had replaced not but a week ago had mostly disappeared again so I shouted "fk it" and poured in some radweld plus to have its way with the water channels
Whilst doing so the neighbourhood mobile mechanic popped by to have a chat and see what I was up to where I explained the situation and he offered to do a sniff test.
The result being.... detection of hydrocarbons in the coolant causing the green liquid to turn yellow aka headgasket failure. Proper bummed out now.
After making myself proud I've now got to make a decision on what to do, do I continue on and ignore it since the car is pretty low value and has been running fine all this time. Invest in a Hg repair but cause the car to be off the road at a point in my life where I need to travel to interviews or sell up and buy a '6
Well today has been interesting, this afternoon I dropped the front subframe and lower tie bars to replace the rubber bushes with superflex race spec. Very proud of myself for doing it all on my own.
Having opened the bonnet though I noticed that the coolant I had replaced not but a week ago had mostly disappeared again so I shouted "fk it" and poured in some radweld plus to have its way with the water channels
Whilst doing so the neighbourhood mobile mechanic popped by to have a chat and see what I was up to where I explained the situation and he offered to do a sniff test.
The result being.... detection of hydrocarbons in the coolant causing the green liquid to turn yellow aka headgasket failure. Proper bummed out now.
After making myself proud I've now got to make a decision on what to do, do I continue on and ignore it since the car is pretty low value and has been running fine all this time. Invest in a Hg repair but cause the car to be off the road at a point in my life where I need to travel to interviews or sell up and buy a '6
