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[The Batman]

I could do it on a private road

[Rosssco]

Chipped rear wheel just spoils everything..

[The Batman]

I know I was gonna get them refurbed for the wedding but to be honest, Im skint and Im doing a trackday tomorrow so no time!

[rob999]

Chipped clam you mean 😄😉

[The Batman]

My clam is fine If you notice my sill is too aswell

[rob999]

I may inspect it tomorrow. Last trackday for you dude; Ella will have that car gone within the year 😄

[The Batman]

She may take my land but she can never take my frrrrreeeeeeeeedom Actually she probably can lol

[rob999]

This car is now for sale. Starting bids from 0.99

[vocky]

I saw the advert too

[gaffer1986]

Maybe I can get it for £5

[The Batman]

well I have definitely had better weekends... .so come into the garage and find loti has emptied all of its coolant onto the floor  

 

a lot of coolant was found in the battery/heater well. So removed the heater and found the heater rad had been leaking for a very long time. 

 

So I left the heater out for now and filled it back up with coolant.... Coolant was still coming out fast. 

 

In the end it turned out to be the coolant pipe that is inside the chassis that goes front to back!! Apparently this can happen on pre 1999 cars (mine is 97) where the metal pipe can hit/rub a chassis rivet which can cause a leak. (after 1999 lotus moved the rivet ) 

 

So after much effort, time and money I ended up using both the heater pipes to run the radiator return pipe. This will do for the national until a better long term solution can be had as to change the pipe inside the chassis you have to remove the crashbox so will change it once I bin it or get bored and decide to take the front end all apart

[rob999]

sh*t news dude. Hope it holds together for Anglesey.

[gaffer1986]

That sucks! Do you currently have no heater until you take the crash box off?

[The Batman]

yeah no heater, I didn't use it anyway to be honest

 

I only drive it when its sunny or on track so either way I'm usually pretty warm!

[Exmantaa]

Bit of a tough repair with that alloy tube only removable from the front and the crashbox blocking it.

 

Not sure if you can (and are willing to) drill a strategically placed hole in the crashbox to let that tube pass...

Or simply take that tube out in sections and replace by 2 mtrs of straight coolant hose. (or pass a lightly thinner hose through that tube? )

 

 

[Tony H]

I think the way its done is to cut the end of the pipe into little pieces as you go.

 

EDIT like exmanta said

Edited by Tony H, 11 June 2018 - 08:43 AM.

[The Batman]

Ha I spent a full day trying to get a thinner pipe through the existing one... ain’t happening!!!

I’m hoping it will be fine now until after the house move then I can chop the old pipe out in sections and feed a new hose in

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

What a great idea to use the coolant pipes as a temporary fix after spending hours and hours trying to push a other pipe in

[sford]

House move? Where you going to?

[rob999]

He has a new bat cave in Dunstable.