hey guys one of the small coolant hoses at the back of the engine has a small pin prick hole and is leaking water the hose is about 10cm or so long and is very easy to get to...how it got a pin brick hole in it is beyond me...i came home and noticed my engine bay was steaming lol anyway as i dont have any other hoses other than the 6mm blue silicon hose from caz, can i use this as a replacement?? if not how can i "plug" the hole till i get some proper hose this weekend cheerZ
carmate artin ,they now do hose repairs lmao but i wouldnt be using silicon hoses on coolant,they may melt or at least expand ,my suggestion is to park your baby until fixed
haha omg again with the carmate jokes!!! lol ok so silicon no good ill have a look around the garage see if i got some spare hose anywhere....u know if i could tape it up or somthing???
Too much pressure for tape,and do not use stop leak,everything will be blocked if you do,your only safe way out is to replace the hose
Seconded, you can indeed get silicon coolant hoses. I'm currently doing a whole car's coolant system in aluminium and silicon. Plus just sold a heap of silicon water bypass hoses. Are you talking about the heater core hoses or the ones going under the plenum? Ben
ok i couldnt find any hoses in the garage...looks like shes gonna have a day off tmr till i get some more on the weekend ...bloody hose!!! im so sick of the amount of hoses in this car!!! lol :bash:
nah ive done the under plenum bypass so dont have a single hose under there (thank god) its at the back of engine drivers side, just under the plenum, surprisingly very easy to get too, i could change it right now, alas no hose!!
the way i read his post ,he was asking if he could use caz's silicon vac hose,and the answer still is ,no your overflow bottle does not have the pressure of an engine coolant hose
I was replying to chad... Who said not to use silicon hoses for water. You can use silicon hoses for any of the coolant lines if it is designed so. Just to clear it up, Caz can get a hold of the stuff too
artin you can use some high quality fuel line. Im using this and its heat resistant and flame resistant also it has an exterior to handle 150 degrees celcius. Its a gates hose and is the bees knees but its very $$$$
yeah thanks for the tip, i had some before but used it all lol tmr ima go get some more...i only need about 10cm lol but ill get half a meter or so
crisis over lads i changed the hose on the weekend, shes all good :biggrin: ...and for the record can i just say how much i hate working on these engine bays!!!!! it bloody took me half a day to change a simple hose in a relatively easy location...sheeesh!!!
yeah that was the easy part, i enjoyed destroying the clips after trying to get em off properly, and failed lol
