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I think I've cooked my engine

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marky:
Any luck with the k-seal. I've tried 2 bottles in the last two days and all thats happened is a small leak has developed in the passenger footwell, so maybe not a head/ gasket failure, maybe just a blockage/ airlock or maybe something REALLY serious

SteveGoodz:

--- Quote from: marky on May 17, 2008, 15:43:54 ---Any luck with the k-seal. I've tried 2 bottles in the last two days and all thats happened is a small leak has developed in the passenger footwell, so maybe not a head/ gasket failure, maybe just a blockage/ airlock or maybe something REALLY serious

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Hi Marky,

I put a bottle of K-seal in on Thursday night and I don't appear to have used any coolant since BUT I haven't driven very far since either, so maybe it hasn't got hot enough to show yet.  :-k

I'll keep you posted  :)

ben_haynes:
do you have sufficient clean oil and not watered down oil in the engine, as this will give you knocking,

SteveGoodz:

--- Quote from: ben_haynes on May 17, 2008, 17:28:09 ---do you have sufficient clean oil and not watered down oil in the engine, as this will give you knocking,

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Hi Ben,

Not that the engine uses oil to any degree but I do keep the level topped up. There's no obvious sign of water in the oil either so I'm fairly sure that's not the problem.

ben_haynes:
do you give it regular oil + filter changes, and is the oil dirty black and grainy or clean?? do you use a cheaper oil or a more expensive oil?? im only asking as we use a cheaper oil at work and the diesels tend to become black and grainy and knock more, i used to used a cheaper one in my 200 and i used to have to change the oil every few thousand miles as i would loose performance and it would get noisy then i found Castrol Magnatex 15/40 diesel and it would last 12000 + miles before getting dirty and noisy

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