Bongo Fury

Personally..I would not put stop leak/rad weld or anything else in a system except as a emergency last resort......it can help clog up a already suspect system......you could change to constant pressure hose clamps, I would bin the silicone hoses.

Whoops.... yes, jubilees. I'll mention it to the guy who fitted them. That's a drag. I remember retightening a lot of them when I first got it back as there were visible leaks. Perhaps one is leaking in a place In can't see (or easily get at).
Thanks for the stop-leak advice, though I've known Haydn to be an Oracle here...

haydn callow wrote:Most people on here who fitted silicone hoses have since bit the bullet and binned them. They tend to start leaking when the winter temperatures arrive......

Solicone hoses don't deform and form a seal as well as rubber hoses do. It's common practice to recheck joints when converting to silicone after a few miles and correct any leaks. It's not uncommon to double-jubilee joints to prevent leaks.

My Westfield is 80% silicone now and leak free too, though I don't use it when it's very cold!

Dodgey wrote:

haydn callow wrote:Most people on here who fitted silicone hoses have since bit the bullet and binned them. They tend to start leaking when the winter temperatures arrive......

Solicone hoses don't deform and form a seal as well as rubber hoses do. It's common practice to recheck joints when converting to silicone after a few miles and correct any leaks. It's not uncommon to double-jubilee joints to prevent leaks.

My Westfield is 80% silicone now and leak free too, though I don't use it when it's very cold!

We could knock together a LCA kit for it!!

haydn callow wrote:

Dodgey wrote:

haydn callow wrote:Most people on here who fitted silicone hoses have since bit the bullet and binned them. They tend to start leaking when the winter temperatures arrive......

Solicone hoses don't deform and form a seal as well as rubber hoses do. It's common practice to recheck joints when converting to silicone after a few miles and correct any leaks. It's not uncommon to double-jubilee joints to prevent leaks.

My Westfield is 80% silicone now and leak free too, though I don't use it when it's very cold!

We could knock together a LCA kit for it!!

I somehow doubt I'd hear it !

We supply kits for some very heavy plant which we fit a larger siren to.

I can see passers by thinking the fire truck is coming.

Hi
That's the punch-line to a very old joke, Bob
Cheers
Helen

I'm very old, Helen.

Bob wrote:I can see passers by thinking the fire truck is coming.

Whereas I was trying to work out why you'd fit an LCA to a large cabbage, until I realised he was probably talking about a large leek.

Ahh, just like the old days on BF.

Hi
Ah...
Large Cabbage Alarm....Strange, I always look for alternative words for acronyms / abbreviations....usually smutty
Cheers
Helen

Thanks all -our house is a bit of a Steptoe's yard so it's apt that Steptoe's advice looks good. I don't think all that is condensation today. New pump ordered, £23 on eBay!

A conclusion to this thread and my original query regarding coolant loss.

I let the garage take a look during the MOT this week and it was a simple loose hose connection where the main rad pip joins a steel pipe under the bonnet area down the bottom. I never saw it as I didn't remove the floor pan cover so it was hidden.

Pressure test revealed it, and now it all tests 100% ok.

Well done.