My Rev 2 was up for sale and someone bought it today, they came and picked it up and drove off, him very happy, me very sad.
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About 20 minutes later i get a phonecall saying its just cut out on him.
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i drive out to meet him in m y daily runner, jump start him and off he goes
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(the battery must just be flat as its only been driven a week ago and has sat out in the cold etc).
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I get another call from him a short while after and its cut out again.
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This time the battery is flat again, hook it up to my car to give it power, but this time there is a burning smell coming from the engine bay.
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My initial thoughts was the alternator.
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Called the RAC and they came out, tested the battery which came out fine while it was being charged, tried it again and it was just whirring over and over, but not firing, then it started to try and fire, then with a bit of throttle it fired up and was running again.
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We carried on our trip to get it back to his.
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Then it cuts out again, this time, there is no heat coming from the blowers and we take the rad cap off, no pressure, coolant pipes in the engine bay are cold.
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So we fill up with antifreeze as we guessed it might have been low on coolant.
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Left the cap off before we fired it up
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(so it would have a quick bleed before we carried on) and as soon the key was turned, the coolant shot out of the filler neck about 4 ft in the air.
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This was before the engine had even been started.
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The RAC man used the phrase
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'Hydraulic Surge' that caused that and said the engine had no compression and therefore the headgasket had gone.
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However, a year ago i replaced the headgasket with a MLS one from a Rev 3, along with all the other gaksets etc etc.
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So i cant believe that the gasket has gone in one hit like tonight.
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What do you guys think it could be? coult the head be cracked? or could it be a simple case that the coolant has frozen somewhere in the system?
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I feel so bad for the new owner, and as a person for potentially selling a broken car
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(even though this has never done it to me before, and i was totally unaware that it would happen!) its bad luck the time its happend, i just need to find out the problem.
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Thanks in advance
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(and sorry for the long post, i wanted to explain everything from start to finish for you)
Dan