Fudgey

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Right, today i started to sort out the probs on my car, fukked gearbox to be replaced, shagged steering rack to be replaced, and leaking waterpump to be replaced...


gear box out, all was well, steering rack out.......

and i ordered the wrong fukkin one cos someone looked up my reg on microcat and told me its a flat pinion, not splined, and it IS a splined one in fairness i would have ordered the same one anyway as it was for 95> car is a 98.....

so take off waterpump, to find this.............

dont think it is the pump leaking, its the fukkin head gasket

just need confirmation before i rip the head off tomoz...

waterpump with rusty crusty bit round the top



cylinder head (shiny bit) and under rusty coloured shite above where pump goes



close up



bit further away.



so now im fukked to get to work next week as its gonna take a few days to get the right rack sent to me


and, to top it all off, its fukkin snowing and i aint got a car to go play in

Fudgey

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oh, forgot to say, its been leaking for months, but i thought it was the pump and just kept topping it up, its never over heated, so will i need to get the head skimmed????

Rich_w

Only need skimming if its warped at all. Get a PROPER straight edge and check. Not a plastic ruler but a real calibrated one.

Rhys

Does look like its the head gaskets as the water marks etc.

Imo u wouldnt need to get head skimmed.

Gutted for u mate

steviep

Still better to get it skimmed whilst it's off considering the menial costs involved

vroooom ptssssh

any play in the pump? gasket ok when came off?

Fudgey

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yeah the pump and gasket looked ok, and if it were leaking i would have thought it would have just dripped down, not sprayed out everywhere.

quite a few months ago i did change the waterpump gasket as i though it was that that was leaking, but i had some work done on it in ford garage and they said it was the pump.....

but it fookin werent...


only thing with getting the head skimmed is that i cant take it anywhere, as i have no car now, and im gonna have to stay at my mums so she can take me to work

Moose 130

I always skim heads when doing a gasket otherwise I don't warantee the job.

Take it to the machine shop and have them check it, bet it's bent a couple of thou.

Dean Saff

Amazing how we all depend on our car's

prob no need for a skim as such. just get it refaced , checked and cleaned.cost Ł30-Ł40.

Get yourself a pushbike to get to work....

Fudgey

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i work 15 miles from where i live, and fook off am i gonna cycle 20 miles with a cylinder head under 1 arm

alan rainbow

water pump could of been trowing thr water up but defo looks like head to me [spelling]

Fudgey

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but where the rust stains on the pump are, they are not by the places the ususally leak from.

so im 99% convinced its deffo the head.

ill take it off in a bit and have a look

anyone know if the focus ST170 multi layer head gaskets are direct fit? should be...