myke
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Registered: 7th Feb 01
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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starting to piss me off now.
started to strip a few bits out to try and see where my coolant is coming from this morning. can see from the top through a gap in the inlet manifold that it's squirting away from the block toward the back of the alternator, but can't really get to it to have a proper fiddle.
don't think there's enough space to take the inlet out either which is gay.
noticed while i was poking around, that my rad is also leaking quite badly.  i put a bottle of rad weld in it a couple of weeks back, but that just seems to have skanked everything up, and not actually done any use. 
took the rad out but can't see any holes in it.
went to vauxhall to price one up, and it's £150 
went via allparts on the way home to see if they do pattern ones, and got one for £68. still not great, but a vast improvement on the gm price.
also took off my power steering hose that the exhaust m,elted through, and took it down to a local hose specialist trade counter. they're fixing that for me to pick it up tomorrow.
pain in the ass being without a car though.
hopefully i can sort it on saturday.
gash gash gay.
sympathy accepted.
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Andy Stocker
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Registered: 31st Aug 00
Location: Herts Drives: Porsche 911
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Know how you feel, been without a car now for 2 weeks or so 
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myke
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it's crap.
i've got my mums corolla today, but i'm gonna have to be piking lifts untill it's sorted .
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iceman
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Registered: 22nd Jul 00
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dude ive got a full set of c20xe hoses and a corsa diesel rad if u want 1
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Joff
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quote:
Originally posted by Andy Stocker
Know how you feel, been without a car now for 2 weeks or so
Week tomorrow for me - but I work 40 miles from home 
Means I get to stay round some dodgy house in Northampton tho. I'm going to copy their door keys and bury them in the garden! 
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Joff
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Registered: 17th Oct 00
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Brosters got some lovely red Pipercross hoses.
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broster
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Registered: 6th Dec 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Joff
quote:
Originally posted by Andy Stocker
Know how you feel, been without a car now for 2 weeks or so
Week tomorrow for me - but I work 40 miles from home
Means I get to stay round some dodgy house in Northampton tho. I'm going to copy their door keys and bury them in the garden!
i have a garden which you can dig up!!!! wow! did you steal my recycling bin joff?
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broster
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Registered: 6th Dec 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Joff
Brosters got some lovely red Pipercross hoses.
yes i have 3 coolant hoses, the 2 radiator ones and one for the header tank! make me an offer, BRAND NEW, some gay company supplied me the wrong one 
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myke
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Registered: 7th Feb 01
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quote:
Originally posted by iceman
dude ive got a full set of c20xe hoses and a corsa diesel rad if u want 1
cheers for the offer. i've got all the hoses i need, they're just not attached properly.
Lee sorted me out with the proper versions of the couple of bits that i bodged when i went to him to sort my linkage and pas pump.
i did wonder about the rad, but isn't the diesel one bigger and with the connections in different places?
i've already bought the pattern one now, so hopefully i'll be sorted.
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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 You should have said, I have a spare rad in my pile of stuff... You could unbolt the engine and lift it out slightly so you can get to the hoses easier?
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myke
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Registered: 7th Feb 01
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nooooo.
you seriously have a spare rad?
bollox, that would have made things easier. or cheaper anyway.
never mind. shit happens.
yeah fuck knows how i'm going to get to the leak.
i've got the battery out and the header tank out, and the powercap off to get better access, but i still cant really see whats what.
ideally need to be stood where the gearbox is.
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Yea, I also have a 20XE in many, many, many different pieces, some Corsa wing mirrors a couple of sets of drive shafts, two rear disk conversion kits... The list goes on.... You can borrow my crane if it helps too, but you'll need to come up t'farm to use it cos I doubt it will fit in your car
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myke
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cheers for the offer mate.
that'll be a last resort, but i'll let you know if i need it.
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