Ok not zed related but take heart zed owners everyone has issues with their cars at some time, at least your zed looks great even when its broken!!

 

 

So seems another neighbour at a near property had an issue with his wife`s Fiat Punto 1.2, overheating very quickly and a local mecânico had said must be the head gasket without even opening the bonnet ??

 

His wife is dogs mad and the car is used to ferry around 6 dogs at a time so believe me it needed the window leaving open !!! jeez quite how they drive it with the pong!!!

 

So anyhow I quickly established that there was next to no water in and so easy job first was add water, not long and the sound of trickling water and soon had my attention,found a leaking core plug on the back of the block, right behind the starter motor....nice.

 

Stripping out took and hour or so as had to take the inlet manifold off as well in the end to get the core plug out, a clean up, new plug ( yes just the leaking one ) and sealant and all looked great, so did a water test and all good so reassembled and refilled the coolant with clean water only.

 

So yes no antifreeze, the car had been run for 10 years with no antifreeze ( hence failed core plug ) and when I spoke with the owner he said it does not freeze here in the Algarve so did not put any in !!:crying: so he did not understand about the anti corrosion properties ?? Anyhow it is one of those moments now where adding antifreeze now is likely to cause more problems as it would find an other leaks quite quickly, so went against the grain but filled with just water?? seen it drive down the lane the other day, full of barking dogs kicking and up dust in its wake from the power but clearly running ok...

 

Enjoy the grandness of the 1.2 litre engine !!

 

Jeff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you take all your tools with you Jeff or is that a brank spanking new lot?

Nice work Jeff and good to see you are still working with the spanners. A warning to us all in keeping your radiator topped up with the right amount of anti freeze.

Did you take all your tools with you Jeff or is that a brank spanking new lot?

 

Yes brought many of them with me, but bigger things like the air compressor and engine hoist etc. was sold and bought new here due to the transport costs.

 

Jeff

 

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Nice work Jeff and good to see you are still working with the spanners. A warning to us all in keeping your radiator topped up with the right amount of anti freeze.

 

For sure buddy,

 

Jeff

Nice work Jeff.......:cool:

 

......And so much for retirement, eh mate......:biggrin:

Been there ,done that!-exactly the same job in Spain Lol!

Nice work Jeff.......:cool:

 

......And so much for retirement, eh mate......:biggrin:

 

Yes I guess !! nice to keep my hand in as such, mostly just favours for Portuguese neighbours but still will never be short of orange`s now !!

 

Jeff

 

 

 

Been there ,done that!-exactly the same job in Spain Lol!

 

Cool, you miss your time in Spain ?

 

Jeff

Yes I guess !! nice to keep my hand in as such, mostly just favours for Portuguese neighbours but still will never be short of orange`s now !!

 

Jeff

 

 

 

 

 

Cool, you miss your time in Spain ?

 

Jeff

 

Every day mate!!