Valtra
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 posted on 20/5/13 at 11:56 PM |
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leaking re build
Anybody used this and can recommend it?
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"If it looks like it works and it feels like it works, then it works"
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snapper
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| posted on 21/5/13 at 05:59 AM |
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Which bit is leaking?
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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SCAR
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| posted on 21/5/13 at 06:29 AM |
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It fixed the leak on my Citroen's heater matrix over a year ago
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Valtra
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| posted on 21/5/13 at 07:37 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by snapper
Which bit is leaking?
I suspect it could be the newly fitted Head gasket but I can't be sure , the "pig to fit" inlet manifold could also be a source .
there is also some seepage around the top hose union casting ( which would have been a thermostat housing on earlier incarnations of the engine) so
all in all not good . I realized once the engine was in that I should have fitted the inlet manifold
before putting it in as access was extremely difficult and the sealing compound was disturbed numerous times before I could tighten anything properly
. The block was surface planed and the head had been skimmed recently in mileage terms but not during this rebuild .
not what I wanted
"If it looks like it works and it feels like it works, then it works"
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SCAR
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| posted on 21/5/13 at 08:37 AM |
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Forget the K seal and get the spanners out.
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Peteff
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| posted on 21/5/13 at 08:46 AM |
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It worked on a pin hole leak in a friend's Land Rover radiator but for a gasket leak I would fix the problem not try to work round it.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Valtra
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| posted on 21/5/13 at 12:38 PM |
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I thought you'd say that ....
demoralizing after such a painstaking re-build and re- engineer (see injection thread) to have got something fundamentally wrong .
"If it looks like it works and it feels like it works, then it works"
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Valtra
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| posted on 4/6/13 at 09:36 PM |
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Struck it up again tonight . fingers crossed no leaks this time when it gets warm or I may blub big time 
"If it looks like it works and it feels like it works, then it works"
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