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 Coolant pipe bugging me
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mixpioneer
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:08 am

What is going on here then?

SEE CHRIS H POST BELOW FOR PICS

That copper pipe has been there since i got the car and its started to bug me.
Don't know where these pipes should be going and cant find any 16v engine pics or hose diagrams that have them on. They obviously shouldnt just go round a loop like that and is the result of a botch repair by the previous owner.

Does anyone know the real route for these pipes?

Could this be why my engine stays too cold when driving (only quater way on the gauge) and heats up too much when at stand still??

Would be good to have a picture of someone elses to see.

Cheers!


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Chet T16
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:21 am

http://a7.cpimg.com/image/B7/BB/44860087-790d-028001E0-.jpg

That server doesn't allow hotlinking so you'll have to click the link to see the pic

My coolant pipes are completely non standard so i can't remember what they're like!
Chris H
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:25 am

this a clio then?

Do you have a pic thats from further away?

Do you have a header tank?
mixpioneer
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:26 am

Cheeky sods!

That pic worked for a few minutes then turned into an advert.

Changed it to the link now cheers Chet
mixpioneer
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:29 am

Yep, have a header tank.

All the pipes that should be there are there.

Followed the dialogys picture of the coolant pipes and those two pipes that are looped arent even shown Confused

Its a clio 16v F7P
Chris H
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:33 am

well the bottom pipe should be going to it!
mixpioneer
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:39 am

Nah, the header tank pipes are in the right place.

One goes to the heater matrix, and the other goes in parallel to the bottom foreign pipe in the picture
Chris H
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:42 am

you got a better pic from further away? That pics useless to diagnose anything. The lower pipe should be the pipe that runs to the aux water pump, should go through a metal pipe to the front of the engine.
JB
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:49 am

i cnat see no pic
mixpioneer
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:52 am

The crap server i've used is playing up.

Can i email you the pics chris, have just taken one from further away and another close up of where the bottom pipe is.

Can't see a great deal though cus its so cramped
Chris H
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:56 am

ok will do the e-mail, I will also re-host that 1st pic so we can all see it.
Chris H
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:09 am

Image

Image

Image

Image

Thats a coolant bottle we all aspire to!
mixpioneer
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:11 am

Cheers for posting them chris
Chris H
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:12 am

still looks to me like the bottom hose should be going to the header tank.
mixpioneer
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:20 am

The pipe that comes out at exacty the same point as the bottom one goes to the header tank though and they are from the same feed

Perhaps it is the pipe to the water pump and they have blocked it off so that the entire coolant flow has to pass through the radiator??

This would explain why the car runs cool when driving aswell if it is the case.
Chris H
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:21 am

the water pump only operates when the cars turned off and the feed pipe for it is via the metal pipe we see and it goes to the front where it goes through another pipe to the pump.
mixpioneer
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:37 am

I see, part of the antipercolation system then.

Need to have a look under the bonnet of another valver i think
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