went to look at a FD last night
when we tried to start it , water spat out the side of the AST
the tank wasnt split - the pipe had come off the side
now this water went about 1 foot - should this have that sort of pressure when you are cranking the engine
or does it sounds like the water seals have failed and pressuring the system
the car had no water in the rad or AST looked like it had all gone back into the overflow bottle
now this car has been stood for 4 months
any ideas chaps ?
Stu
No way! The system is not pressurized from first start. The coolant is cold, and therefore not under pressure. If it\'s chucking coolant out the AST, sounds like the engine is pressurizing the coolant system itself - in other words water seal failure.
(No wonder they\'re selling it! :p)
thats what we thought - we couldnt tell if it had fired up as we was shouting for him to turn it off !!
oh well £2k saved :D :D
Im not an expert, but seems same as happened to me i dont think you should have any pressure in the ast at start up , as the water is cold, so cranking the engine when cold would give you cranking pressure if the water seals have gone.
Quote from: grinderwent to look at a FD last night
when we tried to start it , water spat out the side of the AST
the tank wasnt split - the pipe had come off the side
now this water went about 1 foot - should this have that sort of pressure when you are cranking the engine
or does it sounds like the water seals have failed and pressuring the system
the car had no water in the rad or AST looked like it had all gone back into the overflow bottle
now this car has been stood for 4 months
any ideas chaps ?
Stu
Mind you, if the FD is only being sold for £2k - it could still be a bargain. Get the engine built by Carl or someone, and you have yourself a working FD, with guarenteed engine rebuild for the price of £4.5k, or something similar. That sounds like a bargain to me!
dont need the hassle to be honest - at 2K i was happy for the car - just the AST made me and shaunwil worry a lot - so we walked away from it
its the black one on ebay that needs some TLC
Fair enough - would still make a bargain of a car though. But i aint buying it either (Me and me missus was thinking about having one each! :p)
yeah i know what you mean nik !
oh well it just wasnt to be - the car sounded ideal though
1 - price
2 - it was black
3 - jap import
4 - cheap tax ( 1.3 )
5 - 280 BHP
6 - miles - about 29-32K Miles
:(
Well, it may be possible that the seals have not gone. It just seems very low mileage for it to have gone already.
Are you sure the AST had not split? May have been a hair line split. But i can\'t think of any other reason why the coolant would come out like that. Did it start when it was cold? I guess you didn\'t let it warm up did you? If you did, did it re-start ok?
the pipe want connected on the right hand side - and came shooting out of there
once it did that we didnt even try again to start it - it need oil and water ideally and the lad selling it was a bit of a prat to be honest - he didnt have a clue apart from it was a RX7
it tried to start , fired , then the water came out , then we stopped it
it was all confusing - we dont know if the water came out once it fired - or when it was cranking
and it was covered in straches and the rear NS rear arch was flat ( looked like container damage )
shaun said that it looked like the bottom end of the cheap jap market
I would give it a second look, I had a car once that went through a faze of spitting the pipe off, and was not a duff engine.
Take rad cap with you, top it up, pop cap on and see how it works.
Quoteshaun said that it looked like the bottom end of the cheap jap market
Sounds like mine!! :p
Mines getting a lot better now though! Nice spoiler, scratched interior panels sorted, rattles are getting sorted. Soon i\'ll have a nice car! All i need now is a respray!
would changing the rad cap stop the pipe from spitting off - and we still cant work out if the engine should have pressure at that point
its just a gamble at 2K
Buying a second hand car is always a gamble!
If the pressure cap can no longer hold any pressure what so ever, then it could let the coolant out at startup. A working one will give you piece of mind that it\'s not the pressure cap, and is more likely a dead engine.
ahhhhhhh sneaky !!
just means going back to halifax and spend the time on it - and i dont think thats doable to be honest
hummmm maybe the FD just isnt for me !!
For a 2k car there was alot of issues. It was a type R1 and i have to say iwasn\'t a fan of where it had been stored, the guy didn\'t have any keys for the house it was parked at and the wing mirror missing, loads of scratches.
The pipe was loose, but it looked like it had already done it to him before we had seen it.
Unless you take then engine out and rebuild it i don\'t think its worth the hassle for stu !
Shaun (temp expert)
thanks for the input shaun !! - i needed backup :D
Yeah like a pile of old garbage. Not loved - not even vaguely taken care of. Would give trouble from now until eternity most likely.
It probably could be a complete bargin, but you would have to spend some more money on it in my mind. Just didn\'t feel right.
PS - sorry im a bit late, just swapped over to a completely clear pc case so pc has been in a thousand and one bits, next water cooling !
Shaun