HELP! Cracked engine block!
Posted: 14 Apr 2010, 15:24
Hi guys,
I hope you can help me and give me some advice. I am already loosing hopes on this one!
I was on a trip from Bergen, Norway to the south of Denmark with my van, passing by Oslo, Goteborg, Copenhagen, etc. It was great and the car worked nice! Around 2500km roundtrip.
On my way back home, when I was driving from Oslo to Bergen, I stopped to eat something, maybe after 30km of driving. I noticed some water vapor coming out of the engine compartment and when I looked down it was dripping lots of coolant! It seemed the leak was between the motor block and the head.
I tried pouring two bottles of STP radiator sealant which I found in a gas station, but didn’t help. So I refilled the water tank and drove to the nearest VW dealership. They told me that usually is the head that bends/twist/break and that I may expect to pay for reparation around NOK15,000! (around 1500 Pounds).
I realized that it leaks less water at higher RPMs, but when idling it is like peeing (only example I could think of now =P) So I refilled again and managed to go to a friends place in Ås (south of Oslo). Then I took the train home.
Yesterday my friend took the car to another workshop, and they said that they found a visible-from-outside crack on the engine block near the leaking point, close to the right head. I haven’t seen it myself, but that sound pretty bad for me!
The car is running normally and I have never experienced any overheating in the year I have owned it. I paid NOK 7000 (700pounds) for it, so that makes me suspicious about the previous owner knowing about this?
I have driven the car around 17,000 km in the year, but changed oil, filters, plugs, and so every 5000km. I never speed in it and I think I take very good care of it in general. If it is really the engine blocked that cracked, my question is: why?! And of course: what can I do?
How possible is this to happen? Have somebody experienced something like that? It is a Transporter 1983, 1.9L, gasoline. The total km in the odometer I dont know. It just return to zeros during the trip (the limit is 99,999km) I beleive it is the second turn according to what I could track from the service book.
Thank you very much for your comments and I hope there is still something to do for her (Pitufina is her name). I will try to get some pictures of it later today!
Best Regards,
Andres Castro
I hope you can help me and give me some advice. I am already loosing hopes on this one!
I was on a trip from Bergen, Norway to the south of Denmark with my van, passing by Oslo, Goteborg, Copenhagen, etc. It was great and the car worked nice! Around 2500km roundtrip.
On my way back home, when I was driving from Oslo to Bergen, I stopped to eat something, maybe after 30km of driving. I noticed some water vapor coming out of the engine compartment and when I looked down it was dripping lots of coolant! It seemed the leak was between the motor block and the head.
I tried pouring two bottles of STP radiator sealant which I found in a gas station, but didn’t help. So I refilled the water tank and drove to the nearest VW dealership. They told me that usually is the head that bends/twist/break and that I may expect to pay for reparation around NOK15,000! (around 1500 Pounds).
I realized that it leaks less water at higher RPMs, but when idling it is like peeing (only example I could think of now =P) So I refilled again and managed to go to a friends place in Ås (south of Oslo). Then I took the train home.
Yesterday my friend took the car to another workshop, and they said that they found a visible-from-outside crack on the engine block near the leaking point, close to the right head. I haven’t seen it myself, but that sound pretty bad for me!
The car is running normally and I have never experienced any overheating in the year I have owned it. I paid NOK 7000 (700pounds) for it, so that makes me suspicious about the previous owner knowing about this?
I have driven the car around 17,000 km in the year, but changed oil, filters, plugs, and so every 5000km. I never speed in it and I think I take very good care of it in general. If it is really the engine blocked that cracked, my question is: why?! And of course: what can I do?
How possible is this to happen? Have somebody experienced something like that? It is a Transporter 1983, 1.9L, gasoline. The total km in the odometer I dont know. It just return to zeros during the trip (the limit is 99,999km) I beleive it is the second turn according to what I could track from the service book.
Thank you very much for your comments and I hope there is still something to do for her (Pitufina is her name). I will try to get some pictures of it later today!
Best Regards,
Andres Castro