Champagne coolant
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Champagne coolant
Hi
I fear I might know the answer but after a spirited trip out in my local Cotswold countryside I seem to have fizzy coolant.
When I got back the overflow bottle was hot and overflowing a little so I turned off the engine and it quickly settled down. I have driven the car a couple of times since and the temp guage now sits at about 2/3 of the way up whereas it normally just gets off cold. Running the car up from cold with the pressure cap off almost immediately makes the coolant overflow with very aerated coolant. Revving it a bit makes the filler neck look like an F1 champagne bottle.
I'm thinking head gasket but is there anything else it might be? The rad is a nearly new aluminium job and looks fine. Compression is 150,175,170,170 so I'm suspecting a blow in cylinder 1?
Any help gratefully received, thanks.
I fear I might know the answer but after a spirited trip out in my local Cotswold countryside I seem to have fizzy coolant.
When I got back the overflow bottle was hot and overflowing a little so I turned off the engine and it quickly settled down. I have driven the car a couple of times since and the temp guage now sits at about 2/3 of the way up whereas it normally just gets off cold. Running the car up from cold with the pressure cap off almost immediately makes the coolant overflow with very aerated coolant. Revving it a bit makes the filler neck look like an F1 champagne bottle.
I'm thinking head gasket but is there anything else it might be? The rad is a nearly new aluminium job and looks fine. Compression is 150,175,170,170 so I'm suspecting a blow in cylinder 1?
Any help gratefully received, thanks.
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Re: Champagne coolant
certainly looks like the suspect cylinder has HG issue with what you are describing, get a leakdown test to be 100% sure.
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Re: Champagne coolant
As Pete says you need to do a leak down test to narrow it down, a low compression test could be down to rings or valves and nothing to do with the head gasket.
My advice would be to bleed the system properly and then see what happens then.
Follow exactly the procedure in this article from step 25 https://www.mr2oc.co.uk/know-your2/mk2/ ... ement.html
This concerns me, everything being normal the gauge should sit just below halfway ( summer or winter), just off of cold would indicate a problem with the cooling system.whereas it normally just gets off cold
My advice would be to bleed the system properly and then see what happens then.
Follow exactly the procedure in this article from step 25 https://www.mr2oc.co.uk/know-your2/mk2/ ... ement.html
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Re: Champagne coolant
Thanks for the replies...I took the engine out, split it and the head gasket was blowing on Cyl1 hence the low compression. There's a small amount of corrosion in the block face where the leak happened so I need to get it re-faced but the dilemma now is whether its worth going to the expense of stripping and re-boring the block (there's a noticeable step in the top of the bores) and then re-building the bottom end or whether its a better solution to just find a 1mz and put that in. The car is a standard Rev3 sunroof model with replaced sills etc so is it better to keep it standard or is it going to be worthwhile doing the V6 swap?
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Re: Champagne coolant
loved my 3VZ V6 so go 1MZ would be my choicem122794 wrote: ↑27/11/20 10:42 Thanks for the replies...I took the engine out, split it and the head gasket was blowing on Cyl1 hence the low compression. There's a small amount of corrosion in the block face where the leak happened so I need to get it re-faced but the dilemma now is whether its worth going to the expense of stripping and re-boring the block (there's a noticeable step in the top of the bores) and then re-building the bottom end or whether its a better solution to just find a 1mz and put that in. The car is a standard Rev3 sunroof model with replaced sills etc so is it better to keep it standard or is it going to be worthwhile doing the V6 swap?
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Re: Champagne coolant
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