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Morning all, I've got a couple of rusting coolant pipes on my early 1.9 - knowing that some of the pipes are getting hard to get hold of, I don't want them getting much worse. So I was wondering if painting them might be an option? I could wire brush the loose crap off and go over them with Hammerite - has anyone done this and did it stand up to the heat?

Thanks for any advice

You can certainly do that and Hammerrite will stand that much heat, but it's likely only going to be a cosmetic improvement as much of the rust that causes the pipes to fail is likely on the inside.

Mind you, I wonder if everyone in the vans past has used the correct anti corrosion coolant, how well that provides protection for the insides of the pipes.

That's great, thanks John. Judging from the state of the coolant when I got the van I'm not optimistic. If nothing else painting the rust will be a psychological thing!

I wasn't sure if it'd take the heat.

Thanks again matey, have a good day.

All the cooling system pipes are available.

That's reassuring Kev, thank you. I remember finding it hard to source the pipe that runs laterally behind the pulley, but that could have been a stock issue?