My rad in my cos has gone banana shaped and spat out the lower two rows of cooling fins and the top row aswell...

Any ideas or is it just old and had enough !!!!!!!!

its a standard rad and can u still get um????or is it an alloy one???


Ta

 

Just put an alloy one on my old mans cossie it works mint no point having a standerd one mate there is a bloke on ebay that is saleing them for £160 buy it now and that is what i have put on my old mans if you go for an alloy one i have is number some were if you need it

 

check your head gasket

 

used to be 1st signs off head gasket failure back in the day!


but could be just old age of the rad fingers crossed!

 

Pressurising the system sounds possible as i get a lot of shit out the back on boost and it uses a lot of oil

i'm using a cometic gasket and thinking about it its been shit since then so a leak it could be..

Question: when removing the plugs to see down the bores mine are wet/oily deposits is this another sign or usual???

cheers guys grey cells are working now i would say it is the gasket

 

Could be (normally) pressurised water seeping into a pot via a H/G failure after the engine's turned off.

Sniffer test should tell you what's what.

 

I can't believe you didn't think about this

I hope its not Paul

But it will be

Steve.

 

Oh well more money at least it will sort out other probs aswell

 

What other issues has it got ?

Steve.

 

Only found out the rad has gone due to fitting a new clutch cable,which did not sort out the problem so a new clutch aswell

Had a sniff test today to see if gasket has gone and yes it has..(i've thought this for a while but could not be bother to check it out)

so it will be brand new when i've done this

Not bad thou hav'nt spent a great deal on it,my mate had an alfa 147 gta they wanted £700 for a cambelt and a service no thats a piss take..