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kate205gti

Egg In The Header Tank?

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kate205gti

my radiator seems to have made a hole in itself :s was fine yesterday when i washed it and checked all the levels but this morning it was running hotter and hotter so stopped and the rad was bone dry :o (its an 8v - im sure it wil be fine :P)

 

on closer inspection the oil filter has gone into the radiator and pierced a hole (i did have shunt at the end of july so the whole front end has gone back a bit!)

 

i have 4 x 2 litre bottles of water to get me home, and a new radiator coming on wed (will take the bike into work tomorrow) so was going to try a bit of duck tape and stopping to top up to get me to 26 miles home tonight but a colleague has recommended cracking an egg in there when its up to temp?

 

is this a good idea? any better ways of patching a hole I have a couple of toolboxes but no silicone sealant,etc.. :( reluctant to put rad weld in there either!

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danpass15

I have used an egg before and it worked!

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Fox

Leave the cap off, chances are it won't pressure up enough to leak then. Unless its a massive hole! Don't get stuck in traffic for too long though!

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sport1901966

I have heard this works also. I just wouldn't want it travelling around the rest of the coolant system although it may well have no negative effects of any real concern. Rad-weld from a nearby halfords or petrol station may be a slightly better option?

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Anthony

Don't fill the cooling system with crap, as whilst it might cure the leak, it will risk clogging cooling passages and the heater matrix. Think of it as natural rad weld and thus all the same limitations and concerns.

 

Leave the cap off so that it doesn't pressurise. A sticky bit of bubble gum stuck over the (clean and dry) hole and left to dry has been known to temporarily fix leaks though.

 

(PS. Leave the heater on hot in the car on the drive home, and it acts as an early warning when the coolant is getting low before the engine starts to overheat - heater starts blowing colder than before is a sure sign that you're low on coolant and need to top it up)

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welshpug

just buy a new rad :P

 

as Fox suggested, leave the cap off and check it every so often :)

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kate205gti

ive bought a new rad :P " a new radiator coming on wed" <-- :P i just need to get home from cambridge without grenading the engine!!

 

ok will try chewing gum and duck tape & cap off trick then - wish me luck! :P

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Paul_13

Or do a Richard Hammond when the water pump went on a car he was driving :lol:

 

Big bucket of water and a hand pump :lol:

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welshpug

duuurh :lol:

 

 

it'lll be fiiine....

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jackherer

Cover the hole with araldite, I had a BX 16v that had an oil filter shaped hole in the rad, with it covered liberally in araldite it was fine for several months daily use before the engine went into a 205.

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Fox

After thinking about this again...

 

Take off the cap, and fill it to the brim with water.

Then start it up and bleed the top heater hose.

Top up if needed.

 

Leave the cap off, and run the heater as mentioned.

 

Don't top a hot engine up with cold water.

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vern

When I had a leak in the old diesel rad, it was quite a good hole would empty the rad and bottle in about 50 miles. I used "Barr Stop leak" or something like that, and it did the job stopped the leak and held for over a year, and then I sold the car

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205_sunderland

my friend once did the egg trick on his punto turbo but used 3 eggs as it was leaking so bad and it came out the whole scrambled :lol:

 

i used to use the old iron filling stuff for leaks and it worked wel but when i got a new rad i jammed a house pipe in a flushed the system out as much as i could

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kate205gti

I did the chewing gum trick and left the cap off with the heaters on full and that got me home fine :)

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