Thread: Coolant loss

could be the welsh plug in the back of the block if it is definately coming from the bellhousing?

Or hopefully the pipe from the thermostat to the bottom of the manifold?

fix it quick dont delay. Ask me how i know?

Stu

Originally Posted by 81stubee

could be the welsh plug in the back of the block if it is definately coming from the bellhousing?

Or hopefully the pipe from the thermostat to the bottom of the manifold?

fix it quick dont delay. Ask me how i know?

Stu

Maybe even from the welch plug.

One of these two:

Originally Posted by p38arover

Maybe even from the welch plug.

You know Ron, i was actually wondering whether I spelt it right, but my damn phone doesn't have a dictionary. So it is "welch" as opposed to "welsh". Hope I didn't offend any Welshmen's plug's!

Stu

Originally Posted by p38arover

Maybe even from the welch plug.

One of these two:

I've always known it as a welsh plug ... but checking my Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary (I know, sooo last century!) and it reckons the words are interchangeable.

Willem

Originally Posted by ytt105

I've been loosing a small amount of coolant for the past few weeks. Say half a litre per 500kms.
Found a few loosish hose clamps, fixed them but no change. Replaced my radiator cap with the original one, no change. NOTE. The original cap has 140 stamped inside, whereas the replacement one has 200. Which is correct.

But now I've found where the coolant goes. It drips out of the bellhousing!!

Even I know there is no coolant flow through the gearbox, so I think I've discovered the leak comes from the back of the drivers side head area.

I'm hopeing its the intake manifold gasket and not the head gasket. Any tips on this problem?

I hate to be a bearer of bad tidings, but I think it is most likely to be a leaking head gasket. Not a blown head gasket, just one leaking coolant. Some of these Rover V8 engines had an issue with that ... just ask me how I know! The only cure is to replace the head gaskets, checking for a slipped liner, or a heart transplant (the car's, not yours!) .

Willem

Originally Posted by willem

I've always known it as a welsh plug ... but checking my Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary (I know, sooo last century!) and it reckons the words are interchangeable.

Willem

Dunno why as it is named after the inventors - the Welch brothers.

See http://www.britishcarweek.org/welch_plug.html

Originally Posted by p38arover

Dunno why as it is named after the inventors - the Welch brothers.

See History of the Welch Plug

'coz the "Hubbard Plug" sounds like something Scientoligists do to those who stray, and the "Pontiac Plug" is too brand-specific.... or maybe it's because people would rather spell words like they say them?

Maybe if they renamed it to the "Raquel Plug" in the 1960's it would be more memorable ... One Million Years B.C... hmmmm, tasty