Thank you Marks DTM Calib

[TheBoy]

For a spot of welding, identifying a possibly/likely reason it uses almost as much coolant as fuel and swapping that pesky seized caliper that I had failed to undo a week or 2 ago

Top guy, as always , and thanks to Mrs DTM for keeping me in tea all day

[05omegav6]

For a spot of welding, identifying a possibly/likely reason it uses almost as much coolant as fuel and swapping that pesky seized caliper that I had failed to undo a week or 2 ago

Top guy, as always , and thanks to Mrs DTM for keeping me in tea all day

How was the biscuit arrangement?

[TheBoy]

For a spot of welding, identifying a possibly/likely reason it uses almost as much coolant as fuel and swapping that pesky seized caliper that I had failed to undo a week or 2 ago

Top guy, as always , and thanks to Mrs DTM for keeping me in tea all day

How was the biscuit arrangement?

Hmmm, yes, that's a good point, there wasn't a biccie arrangement, I strike her off the xmas card list .  But pizza and chips went down well

[05omegav6]

Absolutely nowt to grumble at there then

[chrisgixer]

How bad was the rust? Bad enough to need welding obviously, but as deep as expected?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Pretty localised, cut out and a 3mm plate welded in.

Thanks for the labouring this afternoon whilst I threw a few blocks down

[Jimbob]

Good to see you doing a bit to help out while you were there too!

I have photographic proof!

[chrisgixer]

What what? Labouring? Blocks?

Has Master started without us?

[TheBoy]

How bad was the rust? Bad enough to need welding obviously, but as deep as expected?

It had an adviso a couple of years back, about time it was sorted   

As it happens, once tapped out with an educating stick, not too bad, but was holed.  Mr DTM made light work of it

[TheBoy]

Pretty localised, cut out and a 3mm plate welded in.

Thanks for the labouring this afternoon whilst I threw a few blocks down

You are, of course, most welcome. Can't beat a little bit of good, honest graft

[PhilRich]

Pretty localised, cut out and a 3mm plate welded in.

Thanks for the labouring this afternoon whilst I threw a few blocks down

You are, of course, most welcome. Can't beat a little bit of good, honest graft

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Good for the Heart, good for the Soul & good for the Back!
Not sure if it's any good with Gout though!

[Webby the Bear]

Oof rises again. How was the water pump diagnosed ? Presumably finding a bunch of coolant peeing down on the splash tray thingy?

[TheBoy]

Oof rises again. How was the water pump diagnosed ? Presumably finding a bunch of coolant peeing down on the splash tray thingy?

A telltale sign of dampness on the cam cover made MDTM slacken the aux belt showed that the pump spindle was like a cock in a sock.

[Webby the Bear]

Oof rises again. How was the water pump diagnosed ? Presumably finding a bunch of coolant peeing down on the splash tray thingy?

A telltale sign of dampness on the cam cover made MDTM slacken the aux belt showed that the pump spindle was like a cock in a sock.

Was there no noise?

Excellent find though!

[Marks DTM Calib]

Pretty easy to spot the water pump issue, coolant was appearing a lot on the front of the sump area and running down the side.

A tell tail sign of wetness on the cam cover around the water pump

Then a case of check for play......of which there was plenty.

We also lifted the plenum to inspect the valley and stat for leaks etc and all was nice and dry there, there may be further leaks potentially but, the pump needs replacing as a first port of call.

As is always the first port of call with a water leak......use your eyes and check around the system for signs of water.