mystery loss of water - leak?evaporating?!?! wtf !!!!

in the land of the blown head gasket the bicycle is king  

 

Bad luck! Hope you get it fixed soon. I've been having similar water loss problems with my mk2 for a year or so. Satisfied everything is essentially ok, changed coolant, thermostat, old hoses, expansion cap and no joy - taken to topping it up as it really just a hack, maybe I'll try a new expansion bottle.

Good luck

thanks for that Markone.
funny enough a replacement expansion bottle would have been my next
move had the gasket not proven itself guilty.
re Bert's earlier post - at least im going to change the water pump now while
im at it,so new one wont be full of nasty radweld.
take care all,may the Old Pagan God of Gaskets be with you.

chudd said

Go and get the head gasket tested at a local Garage .


Sorry , not good news .

 :wink:

Cured my leak at last  :cheer: Had a cracked water level sensor, the one in the top of the expansion tank. So i've now got a nice clean, new expansion tank, cap and sensor. Oh well, slowly replacing the whole car!

good news Bouchay,lucky man.

here things spiral out of control worse than Amon Duul II on a bad trip

     

its NOT the head gasket at all - its the raaating HEAD itself thats
knacked.car now in bits at Dan Dan the VW Man,and possibly beyond
redemption unless anyone can help me with a recon head for a 1.8
Clipper (carb ) ?!?!?!?!?!
am going to post elsewhere asking for one..
you couldnt make it up.
no wonder people turn to Satanism.