Coolent Buzzer

[nikp]

Sorry! Yeah, still leaking is it....

[Ada7]

Drip drip drip :rollin

Adam

[nikp]

doh!

Well, jack it up, remove the undertray, top up the water, start her up, and wait...

(Don\'t forget to leave it in neutral when you start it up jacked up!! :rollin )

[Ada7]

Will do tomorrow mate thanks
Still got to work today, start at 12 and dont finish till midnight. No one call an ambulance in my area tonight, you might get a very pi$$ed off para! :rollin

Adam

[ro284]

Adam, before taking the undertray off have a look at the throttle body coolant return pipe, as above reply!
Good luck Bob

[Kieron]

Errr ... hello people!! this thread is all about ME ME ME ME please :p

Adam

It\'s all about me mate  :spank

LOL, would offer you a hand but I broke one  :rolleyes:  give me a call midday, if I\'m back on the road I\'ll come over and supervise.

 :p

[Ada7]

Adam, before taking the undertray off have a look at the throttle body coolant return pipe, as above reply!
Good luck Bob

The what with the how many!!?!?!???!?  :confused:
Where\'s that? Pictures and arrows would be most helpfull. cheers

Adam

[Martiny]

right - there is a big black plastic elbow on the left hadn side of the engine bay. Air goes from the intercooler through this pipe then takes a turn and bolts to an aluminium coloured piece. This is the throttle body. The throttle body has a hose on the top, about 25cm thick,  ( near the firewall) and this hose goes across the top of the engine kind of in line with the firewall. It disappears under the aluminium intake ( called the plenum).

Now this pipe gets brittle from the heat and it can split, ( just replaced mine)

[Ada7]

Cheers martin. thanks a lot for that. will check it out in the morning  :cheers
If it is that, How much did you pay for a new pipe and where did you get it from?

Adam

[Martiny]

Mazda are very good at getting parts. I use TW White in Byfleet. I think it was less than £10.
I am in Canada now till end of next week, if I was home in Surrey I could have sent you the part number.

When your parts man looks in the parts list, though, its not listed under cooling system, i had to look in "emission control". I think that pipe\'s job is to warm up the air going through the throttle/intake.

[ro284]

Well good luck Adam but that coolant hose to the top of the throttle body near the firewall is not the one i am talking about! sorry if my directions were too complicated, So look at the oil filter without taking anything off, if you look to the left of the oil filter there are two tubes the one to look at is the one furthest left about 2-1/2 inches from the left hand side of the oil filter, and the same distance left from the rear HT lead cap (blue)
this small tube joins on to a steel tube pointing right at you! then  turns down 90 deg and conects to another steel tube going downwards. the parts from Mazda,
with the engine hot and topped up you will see water coming from this pipe if it\'s the one that\'s perished, if you need guidance call me on 07799523900,
Bob

[Ada7]

OK. Had a good look under the car today. Got the undertray off, started it up and watched for any leak. And leak there was! But it seems to be coming from around the sump  :confused: I couldnt really see if it was coming from any higher up and running down on to it. All i can tell is that it is definatly coolent.

I did have my Power steering pump changed recently and was wondering if any of the pipes around it that may of had to of been removed to do this are coolent ones?

What ever it is i think i\'m going to have to get it booked in to a garage for them to have a better look in the week.

Adam

[ro284]

Have a look at the water pump seal, may be leaking from that and running down to the sump,
Bob

[nikp]

From what area on the block/sump was it coming from? Front, Middle, back? That might help narrow it down a bit. There are coolant pipes all over the engine bay, so we need to narrow down the search criteria a bit!