fisher09

Muppet forgot to put de icer in the water, eventually de frosted it all and so on, but found major leaks within the car. It is loosing water from the radiator reservoir.

What's causing this ?

liam-rst

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u wanna hope its not a cracked block mate, how cold was it where u are last night?

fisher09

Erm it's been around the 0 mark... I guess a crack block would cause that then ?

The car was ticking over okay, didn't have any unexpected sounds..

liam-rst

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if the block is cracked u will only loose water, wont affect the runnin til it overheats, what car is it on?

mr_joe0606

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If block is cracked y is it wet inside the car. I would suspect heater matrix has split.

stevo123

I am guessing a heater matrix leak with it being in that area, assuming the matrix is in the same place as the mk3/4 escort.

Quick fix is to join the 2 pipes that run from nthe engine bay through the bulkhead, this will in effect isolate the matrix from the cooling system but you will be blooming cold!

PS looks like your coolant is rusty and has no/very little antifreeze in it, you are asking for a popped core plug/cracked block at the worse. Best drain the rad/engine untilyou get round to fixing it or the weather picks up.

mr_joe0606

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To quick for you stevo lol

fisher09

It's a mk3 escort estate

fisher09

Thanks for the help !

liam-rst

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i must have missed that bit lol, its gotta have got colder than 0 to freeze the matrix inside the car tho

martysmartie

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As been said check the heater matrix as could be this but hopefully it's one of the hoses instead.

Martin

fisher09

What pipes can i disconnect ? and what shall i do with them to bypass the problem ?

wayne dowling

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Disconect the pipes that go on to the heater matrix and join them with a piece of 15mm copper pipe