So after a long drive, starting the car up again showed the low coolant message on my dash. Couldn't see any pools of water, probably because the hot engine evaporated it all, so I topped up and ran the car. Initially it looked like it was coming from above the coolant temperature sensor, possibly a housing but on closer inspection a hose had bulged a lot and was the likely suspect.
The part number is 038121473 and it's a coolant breather hose from the rear of the engine around the right to a metal coolant pipe, and it's about £15.
changing it isn't too hard at all, 30 mins going slowly and carefully. I think the pipe perished over time because it goes right next to the engine and under the tandem pump, hot stuff! It did well to last 140k miles.
The part number is 038121473 and it's a coolant breather hose from the rear of the engine around the right to a metal coolant pipe, and it's about £15.
changing it isn't too hard at all, 30 mins going slowly and carefully. I think the pipe perished over time because it goes right next to the engine and under the tandem pump, hot stuff! It did well to last 140k miles.
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Got the tandem pump off and..... It's the ****** rubber one's
So i thought i wonder if the metal one will fit.. In a word no after tighten them all up started the car will no mainfold (Big gust of black smoke form the the cylinder had removed the manofild with egr as replacing an o ring) was pretty funny
and it still leaks so gotta wait till tps is open. Hopefully bank holiday monday to get the rubber seals
got the jump leads after about 20 attempts it started
was well chuffed! Until i checked and it's still leaking
