Ok, sorry for not doing a search, but am out for a dinner and have sudden cooling issues. Zed is currently in a car park, and not sure if and how far I can drive her to get home. Started off with a slight rattle on throttle. I got off the freeway, and pulled to some quiet streets. Car stalled at the lights. Started again easily but I pulled off the road right away and parked. At this point the zed's binary temperature gauge did the sudden peak, left the engine off and opened the bonnet. Could hear fluids bubbling and dripping from the front left wheel arch. Light steam/smoke coming from the rear of the engine. Seems to be some fluids on the reservoir bottle. (ie she's not dry) Waited 15min till bubbling and steam/smoke stopped. Put her in the On position where the temperature needle had come back to the middle, and did a short 3min drive to a secure car park. Still a slight rattle. I need to be where I'm at (in north bridge) for the next few hours anyway. Am I able to crawl home (15min drive on freeway) later this even when it's cooler? Anyone know what the rattle is from? Thoughts/advice please??
The rattle may be the engine pinging from extreme heat...fill up the radiator maybe keep the cap off so it doesn't pressurise and take it from there....
yep I'm with ST,, I've really boiled my Z and when they rattle thats hot.. get your oil dumped and the timing belt checked when you fix the temp problem the overheating makes them brittle..:br:
If you have coolant leaking from the left front arch, it sounds like the "bastard" turbo cooling hose has split.
I wouldnt.... 15 min at freeway speeds is not doing your already over heated engine any favours. Its time to organise a flat bed truck or some other means of towing.
Damage assessment time.... Topped up the radiator - noticed dripping ... (seems it was from the front right... like driver's side end of the radiator)... left the radiator cap off. Managed to coast her home, relatively cool air and sitting on around 75kms, so no rattling and she never got anywhere near as hot as this afternoon, or on a standard hot day for that matter. So.... she's in my garage now, and time to assess problem + damage. Put the radiator cap back on, and within a couple of minutes could hear a soft squeal, which immediately stopped the moment I unscrewed the radiator cap again. - I'm guessing steam pushing through a split hose with the pressure building up? Now.. ideas on what to do next short of towing to a workshop? I'm guessing dump oil to see if water is mixed in - i.e. blown gasket? ... and of course working out the source of the coolant leak in the first place.
Done your plenum pull and bypasses yet? Replaced heater hoses and turbo hoses? 100K service with bypass hoses, water pump, thermostat? age of radiator, radiator cap and radiator hoses? Unfortunately, once 1 hose goes and you replace it, it creates a domino affect, and the next, equally brittle hose will fail. You can patch it, replacing only the necessary hose, and then the rest when funds permit, but consider it notice that it must be done if not already. Luckily an abundance of lunatics over there in WA, forever willing to lend a hand. Its more sickening than the Brady Bunch
