After thinking my radiator was fucked I now seen that the metal pipe going to the turbo has split Has to be towed home now!!
S2 escort by the way.

Where can I get a new one? Do they do braided?? How much £££??

Thanks

 

yo wont have to tow it just block off the water feed to the turbo!

 

Ah So clamp the hoses leading to it????
Good idea, will this work??

 

join em up together would be a better idea - use a bit of 8mm microbore copper pipe

 

Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

If its anything like a cossie one which i assume it is cos a turbos a turbo u have to bypass the hose going to the turbo coming from the stat housing (its like that on a cos not sure if it goes to it from there on a S2 aswell?!) and bypass it back to the header tank instead of the turbo pipe!!

otherwise you wont get water flowing back to the header tank and it'll overheat and go bang!!!!

Could be wrong but as i say thats what you have to do on a saph!!!

 

oh shit dunno wot goin on now! I have clamped either side of the turbo - One tube comes from the main pipe off of the water pump and the other goes to the rad in the middle!!

Will this do me to get home 20 miles

 

bttt

 

too knee a rst is nothing like a saph so your just worying the guy

either do as graceland says and join the water feed from the top hose and the water hose form the rad or put a bolt and a clamp in the water feed from the top rad pipe and also a bolt and clamp in the hose going back to the radiator

 

Bypass it not just clamp it ideally, that way it still flows the same

 

ok thanks - I can now drive back without worrying Do they do braided ones or do I have to order shitty metal pipe???

Off home now sticking under 2k

 

shitty metal pipe it is im afraid... good lluck getting one...
i bet ford dont have any