Guffing out water..........

Guffing out water..........

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molineux1980

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1,211 posts

225 months

Sunday 8th October 2006
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My Mini chucked all it water out while parked up yesterday, managed to limp to a shopand refill the rad with Evian! It seems fine now, any idea's why it would do this?

love machine

7,609 posts

241 months

Sunday 8th October 2006
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It's a mini!

My ex's used to do and it was a porous block. After we replaced the HG twice. I'd look simple, rad clear? fuelling fine? before jumping to a sinister conclusion. Does it gradually lose water anyway? Hoses pressurising? Rad cap is a good one perhaps the spring stuck or something. Mine uses evian as well but prefers volvic in emergencies.

Do flush with distilled water though.

Dino42

151 posts

236 months

Monday 9th October 2006
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molineux1980 said:
My Mini chucked all it water out ..

Mine did that on Fri...also blew a hole in the radiator!
Just fitted a new head gasket and rad and it seems to be OK (fingers crossed!!)
I think it's been pressurising the rad for a while.. may be worth checking as I certainly didn't have any other symptoms.

Edited by Dino42 on Monday 9th October 20:50