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Looks like I've <crosses fingers, not fitted yet...> dodged a bit of a bullet on the cooling front. The metal hose which curls round the LH cylinder head is absolutely past-tense, just in a very small section on the lower forward corner.

Anybody know if this sounds like the one described as "Oil cooler to 'stat housing" on Brickwerks? (It seemed to start around the 'stat, but I don't recall noticing where the oil cooler was hiding, y'see...)

what engine is it?

could be this one i think, its on th left goes from the water pump to the thermostat housing
http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/shop?page=s ... pipe+metal

dazzzer1 wrote:what engine is it?

Sorry - '88 2.1i WBX

could be this one i think, its on th left goes from the water pump to the thermostat housing
http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/shop?page=s ... pipe+metal

<looks at price>
<groans>

AdrianC wrote:

could be this one i think, its on th left goes from the water pump to the thermostat housing
http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/shop?page=s ... pipe+metal

<looks at price>
<groans>

<looks at van>
<groans even louder>

Why is it never the CHEAP bits that go?

The pipe you've linked to is common to all late WBX's and has nothing to do with the oil cooler, it connects the water pump with the thermostat housing.


http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/shop?page=s ... ory_id=118

^ Connects the thermostat housing and the oil cooler


http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/shop?page=s ... ory_id=118

^ Connects the water pump with the oil cooler. Each have a small hose between the major components.


http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/shop?page=s ... ory_id=118

http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/shop?page=s ... ory_id=118

and


http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/shop?page=s ... ory_id=118

There's one more which is just a short equal hose from the water pump spigot and which never goes and is available everywhere off the roll anyway.

Hope this helps, Ian.

Right, it's piccy time... <grin>

This is looking straight down from the LHF corner of the engine lid.


(Click for bigger)

The green area is the bit that's manky. I didn't have the camera with me yesterday when it was up on the ramp, and I can't seem to find the right bit by sticking the camera up under the wheelarch... From below, it's really, really horrible. Definite last legs.

Oil cooler was a red herring - I forgot to take a note of where it was going yesterday, and made an assumption when I was looking at Brickwerks on getting in.

Sadly you were correct 1st time ... it's http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/shop?page=s ... ory_id=118

Like you said the oil cooler was the red herring

Ian.

Right, the pipe's here. I've got the coolant. I've got a new 'stat.

So... Do I do it before heading to Derbyshire on Friday?

If I don't - there's the risk of the pipe letting go.
If I do - there's the risk of breaking something and not being able to button it all back together...

Don't drive it if your pipe's iffy.

The favourite thing to 'go' is the bolts that hold said steel pipe to the water pump, be carefull tightening them too cos the pump housings a cross between aluminium and cheese and we don't want to strip it now do we.

We're in Derbyshire so if you're in trouble over the weekend the numbers are in the Members Help thread in Members Only.

Ian

Ian Hulley wrote:Don't drive it if your pipe's iffy.

The favourite thing to 'go' is the bolts that hold said steel pipe to the water pump, be carefull tightening them too cos the pump housings a cross between aluminium and cheese and we don't want to strip it now do we.

Having another good look today, I'm going to put the pipe off until after the weekend. I'm short-term happy with it, but the new pipe is definitely going on sooner rather than later. The pump bolts look OK, but the bolts holding the 'stat lid on are definitely a bit past-tense. The new pipe's in the van, though, along with o-ring & coolant, just in case.

You don't need to mess with the stat housing, just get the tw @t clips off that hold the 2 hoses at the t/stat end.

Ian

Ian Hulley wrote:You don't need to mess with the stat housing

I do to put a new 'stat in.

Indeed

I'd get soaking those little bolts and hope the crappy threaded inserts don't spin

I'm attempting the same tasks. What should've been a 5 minute job to replace the stat is taking hours. After a good soaking in PlusGas, two bolts came out easily. Then it feels like the threaded insert's spinning on the third and the fourth just wouldn't budge with socket or molegrips and I've just hacksawed the head off in frustration. Stuck now. And the stat to head coolant pipe is held on by two rusty allen bolts - can't see them coming out very easily. Has anyone got any tips please?