portreathbeach
Silverstone
- Joined
- 9 Aug 2015
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- 105
I got home today to find coolant pissing out from under the car!!!
After jacking it up an removing the rear passenger side wheel, I found that the coolant was coming from the aluminium coolant return pipe (part 997.106.809.02), the part number sticker happened to be right beside the place it is damaged. The pipe is just above the rear CV joint.
The cause of the issue is that someone has used a jubilee clip on the smaller pipe in front of this one and the large part of the jubilee clip (the part that houses the screw) has actually scraped a hole in the pipe.
Here are a couple of pictures...
So, my main question is, has anyone replaced this pipe or know how too? The pipe that needs changing is pretty long and I'm not sure how easy it's going to be to get the old one out and thread the new one in. I'm hoping it's not an engine out job.
After jacking it up an removing the rear passenger side wheel, I found that the coolant was coming from the aluminium coolant return pipe (part 997.106.809.02), the part number sticker happened to be right beside the place it is damaged. The pipe is just above the rear CV joint.
The cause of the issue is that someone has used a jubilee clip on the smaller pipe in front of this one and the large part of the jubilee clip (the part that houses the screw) has actually scraped a hole in the pipe.
Here are a couple of pictures...
So, my main question is, has anyone replaced this pipe or know how too? The pipe that needs changing is pretty long and I'm not sure how easy it's going to be to get the old one out and thread the new one in. I'm hoping it's not an engine out job.