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Offline Jimmyrallye

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Whats this pipe ???? :(
« on: 31 May 2012, 22:54 »
Hi ive just noticed this bodge on my car could some one shed some light on it for me :)


Offline danny_p

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Re: Whats this pipe ???? :(
« Reply #1 on: 31 May 2012, 23:10 »
metal coolant pipe  runs round the block ,  from water pump to heater matrix  also connect to oil cooler and header tank.

50p says it's rusted out
all the VW's have gone bar 1.

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Re: Whats this pipe ???? :(
« Reply #2 on: 31 May 2012, 23:30 »
Arhhhh bugger big job to change over ?

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Re: Whats this pipe ???? :(
« Reply #4 on: 01 June 2012, 12:20 »
How could that have been "just noticed"!!!  :grin:
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Re: Whats this pipe ???? :(
« Reply #5 on: 01 June 2012, 12:33 »
Mine was bodged like that as well. Not a terrible job to do but id recommend taking the oil filter off. The hose claims on the oil cooler are a PITA.

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Re: Whats this pipe ???? :(
« Reply #6 on: 01 June 2012, 12:57 »
Brilliant only had the golf a week and every day a difrent problem the funs of haveing a old car

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Re: Whats this pipe ???? :(
« Reply #7 on: 01 June 2012, 13:58 »
Be wary of some of the aftermarket pipes though. When I was changing various hoses on mine I thought i'd change the coolant pipe along with everything else. I bought one off the link above from Tierod back a few months ago and another from GSF. In both cases I couldn't get them to fit properly. The angles were very slightly off, and the outlet to the oil cooler was located slighlty more to the right on the new pipe and was in the way off the oil filter once installed. I was lucky and my original pipe only had some surface rust so I derusted, sanded and painted it, but if your buying a pipe keep in mind you may need to mod or bend it slighlty. This happened with both pipes, don't know if I was just unlucky or if they are very slighlty off.

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Re: Whats this pipe ???? :(
« Reply #8 on: 01 June 2012, 15:39 »
Just make one out of copper!
Just to let anyone know the corrado water pipe on the 16v looks nearly close, but the expansion tank pipe needs to be longer to reach the shorter outlet.
Basing this on the Golf 16V 90 spec.

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Re: Whats this pipe ???? :(
« Reply #9 on: 03 June 2012, 10:07 »
i got a replacement pipe from vw heritage about 18 months ago . . . i didn't fit it, but seems fine