General losing water?

[ycming]

the car is a 0.9 94 cinq, at first the radiator was leaking, and water keep leaking out, got that changed . it was fine for about 3 months and now there doesn't seem to be any trace to leaking , but water keep dissappearin.

I know u might be suspectign head-gasket might be gone, but the engine oil does not seem watery....

Any idea?

Could it be the header tank losing pressure casuing the water to start boiling at a lower temp ??

thanks

 

[ycming]

the car is a 0.9 94 cinq, at first the radiator was leaking, and water keep leaking out, got that changed . it was fine for about 3 months and now there doesn't seem to be any trace to leaking , but water keep dissappearin.

I know u might be suspectign head-gasket might be gone, but the engine oil does not seem watery....

Any idea?

Could it be the header tank losing pressure casuing the water to start boiling at a lower temp ??

thanks

 

[rallycinq]

Yup, could be the pressure cap has failed. Worth replacing to check.

Cheers

D

 

[DARTH VADER]

First of all, sorry for the bad english.
You must make a compression test of the circuit

and check those iron disks (don´t know the name in English) that the engines have from both sides (mine was leaking from one of those :bang: .

regards

 

[ycming]

any members got one i can buy it off them >.< ?? or even an after-market one that works? i am not looking for one of those chrom out ones, just one that works.

 

[allanhelen]

Haed gaskets can go in a number of different ways does it blow a lot of steam from the exhaust? the chances are it has failed between the waterway and combustion chamber

 

[fingers99]

the car is a 0.9 94 cinq, at first the radiator was leaking, and water keep leaking out, got that changed . it was fine for about 3 months and now there doesn't seem to be any trace to leaking , but water keep dissappearin.

I know u might be suspectign head-gasket might be gone, but the engine oil does not seem watery....

Any idea?

Could it be the header tank losing pressure casuing the water to start boiling at a lower temp ??

The likely suspects are:

head-gasket -- look for mayonaise like deposits on and below the filler cap. But this isn't conclusive: you really need to run a compression test.

leaks: either pressurise the system or run the engine and look very carefully everywhere. Anti freeze tastes, BTW, just like sacharine -- very sweet. Hose connections are likely candidates, as is the water pump and the seal at the engine end of the water rail.

a leak from the pressure cap is possible -- either replace (they're very cheap) or get it tested.