Hi,

 

I noticed some water under the car in my garage. On looking from underneath it seems to be dripping from the front of the gearbox. Working up from there it seemed to be coming from somewhere above the exhaust join arrangement, on the near side.

I tried removing the battery and looking from above, but couldn't get an angle to see anything.

 

There didn't seem to be that much water lost from radiator, and didn’t' seem to leak while engine running.

 

Anyone any ides, what might be leaking up/back there - is it where heater parts are?

(not sure I want to ask about ease of solving the problem !!)

 

Thanks for any help

Ash

 

 

might be the hoses from the heater, which are located behind the engine (between engine and firewall).

Unfortunately those hoses are very hard to get to..

 

-Eric

is it just clear water??

 

if it is its almost certainly from the a/c evaporator drains, just condensation running out & its quite normal.

 

Nope, definitely water + antifreeze.

But even stranger is that it seems to be a random occurence. I've tried running with heater on and off, short and long distances and can;t find a common cause.

When it happens it seem sto drop 1/2 or pint of water and then stops. Only seems to happen once I've stopped, but this may be because thats only time it's noticeable.

Water drops down onto near side exhaust so produces lots of steam, but temp sensor never changes from normal......

 

The turbos are water cooled??

 

could it be one of the pipes to the turbo??

 

Leigh

 

 

it looks like it is these pipes that have split on mine, drips coolant and water down the back of the engine. not good

 

Aaron kindly wrote this for me on how to bypass these, I am waiting until the gearbox and starter motor is out to hopefully allow better access.

 

I quote:

 

> OK.. First off, this job is a right beyatch to do -

> although it was

> relatively easy when I did it, because of the amount

> I had out of the

> engine bay..

>

> The way I did it, was this;

>

> I pulled the upper intake manifold (intake

> collector, I think the manual

> calls it). Which gives you pretty good access to

> three of the water

> feeds to the turbo's, (but not the fourth - more on

> that later!).

>

> I *think* someone with small hands could get at

> these without removing

> the upper intake. Basically there are two L shaped

> metal pipes that come

> up the back of the engine, about 20mm in diameter,

> their ends terminate

> in the two heater hoses.

>

> A little further down these, however, are two

> smaller feeds off each

> pipe. One return and one feed for each turbo.

>

> From memory, there are two that face each other and

> almost touch - you

> join these directly together.

>

> There is one a little above this that seems to come

> from the leftmost

> heater pipe that faces to the right of the car (all

> looking at it from

> the front), and on the rightmost pipe, another small

> pipe that heads to

> the right of the car - you join these with a loop of

> hose.

>

> It actually proves *extremely* difficult to bypass

> the drivers side

> turbo, because the lower feed from the heater pipe

> comes off right at

> the bottom, and is metal all the way along the back

> of the block - a

> total 'mare to get to.. Although it would be

> possible with small hands,

> and probably removing the brake master cylinder..

>

> If you need any more info, let me know, I'll try and

> find relevant

> pictures for you - the brains a bit fuzzy right now

> (well, it is 5am

> ), and it's a while since I did it..

>

>

> Cheers,

> Aaron

 

HTH

Martin

 

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