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Title: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: Goops on 27 November 2008, 17:27

Jus got back from work and noticed steam from under the driver's side of the bonnet.
Had a quick peek with torch and its a lot of coolant sprayed allover the airbox, alternator and parts of the engine. :angry:
I have checked the 2 pipes from the radiator and they are bone dry??
Is there something else I should be looking at?? The only oddity of late has been the squeaky fanbelts!
 :sad:

Title: Re: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: danny_p on 27 November 2008, 17:31

it'll be water pump, ether the lower uninon ( thermostat houseng )  the o ring that joins the pumps and block water ways,  the small bastard pipe from water pump to metal water pipe (  change this anyway if you have the pump off its a sod when it fails at later date ) or the water pump itself

Title: Re: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: Goops on 27 November 2008, 18:27

Cheers Danny,

Waterpump, thermostat and housing was changed last year!  :angry:
I still goto drive to work tommorow, is it ok to top up the water and hit the road?
Can only look at this on the weekend!

Title: Re: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: danny_p on 27 November 2008, 20:52

it's not optimal but will probaly get away with it  just make sure you have some more water with you just incase it starts developing faster

Title: Re: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: Goops on 27 November 2008, 23:21

Cheers mate, will keep an eye on it and take her slow tommorow

Title: Re: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: Goops on 28 November 2008, 10:39

sh!tty Journey into work...
steaming allover the show and the car was running at high temps...
I have a feeling the thermostat may be stuck too  :sad:
aaaaargh!
Also got a journey home to look forward to!

Title: Re: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: Mk2George on 28 November 2008, 15:08

Good luck with that one  :sad: Just take it steady mate! How far do you have to go?

Title: Re: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 28 November 2008, 16:37

You checked the expansion cap?

Title: Re: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: Goops on 28 November 2008, 16:45

25miles, all on the motorway though then a a few miles of b roads..
I jus bypassed the fan switch with some wire, at least the car wont heat up, had a bit of a scare in the morning... temps got to 128  :shocked:
Wanna open her up tommorow and have a proper look...

expansion cap, coolant tank, waterpump, thermostat, housing and rad got changed last year, which is why im kinda angry at the car! (stupid as it sounds!)
Pissed precious G12 juice allover the company car park  :embarassed:

Title: Re: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: Conker on 28 November 2008, 19:52

At least it should be easy to find the leak.

Title: Re: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: my white golf on 28 November 2008, 20:36

i would proberly put my money on the expansion cap letting out some coolant cos the thermostat was stuck shut causin it to boil, i hope for you anyway because it is the cheapest thing to go wrong, let us know how you get on with it.

Title: Re: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: nealey on 30 November 2008, 13:05

Is the headgasket ok? My mate had this problem with his and turned out to be the headgasket overpressurising the cooling system and it was spraying coolant from quite a few places

Title: Re: coolant sprayed all over airbox and alternator
Post by: Goops on 01 December 2008, 12:48

Turned out to  be the top rad pipe which was split!
8 quids from GSF, not bad at all  :rolleyes:

(http://www.gsahota.com/gti/split.jpg)

Aah the wonders of daylight  :smiley: