Overheating

Supermarine Blues · Post by **Supermarine Blues** » Mon May 27, 2013 7:38 pm

If you've boiled it up, you may have warped the head & it will need skimming. That's not a DIY job.

If you've got mayo in both places, it sounds like it's really shat itself.

Post by **DaveyBa8** » Mon May 27, 2013 7:59 pm

You could try it yourself it will save you a fortune, what's your tool case like?? Can you manage a timing belt? Get the head skimmed if you can't tell if its wrapped.

C12HLL · Post by **C12HLL** » Mon May 27, 2013 9:31 pm

The steel seal stuff has had good reviews and I believe offers a guarantee if it doesn't seal the fault.

Another one is K-seal.

They are the only 2 products I would consider using and even then only as a temporary fix.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue May 28, 2013 6:08 pm

Bad luck with that!

4th Gen Doug wrote: Also, what sort of money am I looking at to have the gasket replaced?

If you're looking to pay someone to do the work, with what you can buy an H22 for these days, you'd probably be better off just buying a known good used one and dropping that in? Particularly if you bought one with low miles on the cam belt - by the time you've added up all the labour for doing cambelt and head gasket (including possible skim etc) it'd work out more labour for a garage than to just swap the engine I reckon.

If that's your backup plan you may as well try that other stuff, but I'm very sceptical about it either working at all, or working and lasting/not buggering up the rest of the system (blocking the rad/heater matrix etc)

Post by **4th Gen Doug** » Tue May 28, 2013 8:17 pm

Hmm...
Replacing the engine eh? Certainly worth thinking about..

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue May 28, 2013 10:23 pm

Sounds drastic I know

, but might be the cheaper on one of these...

Bludge · Post by **Bludge** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 7:57 am

i was talking to a mechanic friend of mine the other day and when i mentioned my coolant loss he recommended k seal. said that was the only one worth using and that it has worked for him in the past.

might be worth giving it a shot, but it sounds like you will need to flush the gunk from the system first.

im thinking i might give it a try, will post back here if i do.

Post by **Thebusofwoe** » Sun Jun 09, 2013 12:31 pm

That's unlucky chap. You can only try. Shame, if you was closer id do it for ya

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