You'd think i'd know better

[5.0 ED]

So anyway today im on my way to work and i notice my low coolant light come up, oh well my header tank leaks and it does that time to time when it gets a little low, temp gauge looks fine, so i keep driving along and hmm my fan belts squeeking, hmm yeah i do need to replace that its been squeeking a bit later, done 293,000kms lol. And then i give her the boot and it pings, hmm oh yeah i put in 95 instead of 98. 15km's later i pull into work. hmmm something smells, i lift the bonnet, oh there's no water in it, bottom radiator hose somehow moved out of the holder and jammed in between the bottom pully and it, until of course wearing a whole through it. Fixed it at work, put a piece of pipe in the middle and rejoined the hose, and all seems ok.

[naughtyfalcon]

its like a lot of people,yeah i know that needs to be fixed but when it actually goes you say,bugger i should of fixed it ages ago,

she'll be right mate,no worries.

[SirHenry]

Originally Posted by naughtyfalcon

its like a lot of people,yeah i know that needs to be fixed but when it actually goes you say,bugger i should of fixed it ages ago,

she'll be right mate,no worries.

amen to that, I think we all have one little thing or another that we put off and put off until something big happens.

[5.0 ED]

Yep thats it, at least it hasn't seem to have done any damage.

[naughtyfalcon]

your a lucky bugger,normaly these things end up costing big dollars.

[5.0 ED]

nah i wasn't really worried about, $80 for a surface and $70 for a set of gaskets no worries. and if worse came to worse i do have another complete engine in the shed.

Still time will tell anyway half the time after overheats like that 6months later the head gaskets blow anyway, may give them a retension later just in case.