Symtoms are: looses the water, electric fan doesn't come on (No viscous fitted?) Pipes "seem" to become hard.
I know the plastic part that goes between the head and the top hose fail, so had already mentioned that to her. Let it warm up and saw a drip from that area.
Part 7 here:
Litterally touched the top hose and WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Boiling water EVERYWHERE! And it was PROPPER boiling inside the head. This was after fast idle for 5 mins after starting from cold.
The end of the plastic bit was broken off in the end of the top hose, dispite a garage apparently having fixed it not long ago.
Had the head gasket done about 6 months ago. Don't know if the head was skimmed, but suspect not knowing the fools that did it.
Top hose gets hot, bottom hose stone cold.
No water in the oil
Has 180k miles on it.
I'm thinking:
a)if she is VERY lucky its just the above part (7) that was loosing water
b)Thermostat is stuck shut
c)Radiator is blocked (unlikely)
d)Head gasket is gone and the pressure caused part 7 to break due to the pressure
or
e)Part 7 has failed through age and now the head gasket has gone due to driving with little/ no water
Do M43 engines suffer from head gaskets?
Thoughts please
What would you do next (Other than fit an M52!
)Many thanx
Andy
