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Hi Everyone, My van has sprung a leak. After a drive in the heat and traffic I parked up and heard a hiss I looked under the van to see coolant pouring out of the pipe that connects the subaru engine into the vw cooling system. The temp gauge hadn't got to high prior to th leak. The conversion is d...

steveo9007 wrote:I have heard of this method and seen a video where someone used bread. Do this actually work ??

I've used bread to get a blind bearing out and it worked a treat.

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I used chopping board too

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I got mine from reelaudio.Co.UK but I dont think he makes them anymore, might be worth an email

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Have you looked at the inside piece of metal. They aren't actually reversible without work to make or move the strengthening piece. By which time it would be eaiser to repair what you have.



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bearings in discs too

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They are reversible except they aren't, if you look. On the inside there is a piece of metal strengthening on the spring plate side. So yes but no.

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This will be interesting to see, the other two I have seen that have been done looked a bit crap in my opinion. But I think that was more down to the finishing or lack there of.

Good luck!!

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Is your coolant tank(dalek cap one) topped up the brim?

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redsnapper wrote:well would you freakin believe it...

Managed to use the point of a flathead screwdriver on the sheared bit still inside the radiator and got it turning and out!



Now to track down a replacement... onwards!

Nice one

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cheers pkrboo for coming to my aid, do you know which model van it came out of? Just having a look if these are universal or not... If you could pm me a couple of pics of the radiator that would be great, this is all new territory ;) Mine is a 1.7 diesel..   The rad is from a 2.1 DJ, pretty sure th...

So I think I must have done something serious to offend the VW gods.... Thermostat in, just getting it up to temperature, went to the front to have a look at the bleedscrew to discover it gone ... and this on the floor f************ !!! https://i.ibb.co/XXfNspc/IMG-0019.jpg it has sheared and the r...