klaus
New Member
Hello,
I have a strange problem on my 1974 P6 3500:
Everytime I take my P6 out for a ride, put it back in the garage and have a look the next day there's a little puddle below the LH side of the engine bay, I suspect where the heater hoses meet the heater matrix. Also, the small raked bulkhead panel below the bottom heater hose mount is a little wet. So far, so obvious.
Now to the puzzling part:
When at operating temperature and pressure, the system is perfectly watertight. You would expect that under pressure water seeps out somewhere, but it never does.
It seems to me that a gap widens when the system cools down and still is under pressure, releasing up to a halfpint of coolant every time. I had this checked by a very competent mechanic already, but he had no clue what could be wrong here.
I am a little worried as next week I am going to take my P6 from Zurich to Salzburg to the International Rover Meeting. Can someone give me advice on whether this is a severe problem and what I could do about it?
Many thanks,
Klaus (Zurich, Switzerland, P6ROC-Member 1490)
I have a strange problem on my 1974 P6 3500:
Everytime I take my P6 out for a ride, put it back in the garage and have a look the next day there's a little puddle below the LH side of the engine bay, I suspect where the heater hoses meet the heater matrix. Also, the small raked bulkhead panel below the bottom heater hose mount is a little wet. So far, so obvious.
Now to the puzzling part:
When at operating temperature and pressure, the system is perfectly watertight. You would expect that under pressure water seeps out somewhere, but it never does.
It seems to me that a gap widens when the system cools down and still is under pressure, releasing up to a halfpint of coolant every time. I had this checked by a very competent mechanic already, but he had no clue what could be wrong here.
I am a little worried as next week I am going to take my P6 from Zurich to Salzburg to the International Rover Meeting. Can someone give me advice on whether this is a severe problem and what I could do about it?
Many thanks,
Klaus (Zurich, Switzerland, P6ROC-Member 1490)