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Car Forum / Land Rover Cars / November 2007

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Freelander Water leak : update

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vertuas - 19 Nov 2007 14:52 GMT
OK

I have just been under the car an took off the engine bay side cover on the
drivers side.  Enabled me to see the drive belts and pulleys.

Drive belts are wet and make a noise when its running, a small squeak whilst
driving, like after you drive fast through a deep puddle.

There is one pipe and inch and hald comes from what appears to be the
thermostat housing, down the back corner of the engine and turns under the
pulley.  It then does a 90 degree bend accross the front of the car.  This
pipe was all wet.

I dryed off the big old pipe with some tissue paper and took it up the road
to get it warm, when i came back the pipe was wet again.  so i wipe it down
and left it running in the drive for ten mins....still dry now.

Header tank is still full to max, as is PAS fluid.

Still dunno whats leaking!!!!!! gggrrrrr
me2@privacy.net - 19 Nov 2007 18:07 GMT
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>Still dunno whats leaking!!!!!! gggrrrrr

vertuas,

I had a similar problem in a Disco 2. The main pipe from the radiator
chaffed against a flange on an air con pipe causing it to dump all
it's water in a lay by one day. It was recovered to a garage where
they couldn't find the leak despite looking for well over 30 minutes.
In the end they just refilled the radiator and I drove it home. It
then went several days without loosing any water!! It then started to
loose water, but only slowly and it took me several days to find the
leak. Obviously, pressure from the air con flange was sufficient to
stop the leak.

Good luck in your leak hunting.

regards

nemo2
vertuas - 19 Nov 2007 21:47 GMT
Thanks for that Nemo

I will check out the flexible part of the pipework.  Trust if to be the one
in the lease accessible part of the engine bay, between the engine and the
inner wing!!

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