ollie_ 0 Posted June 22, 2010 Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 Evening all,After a day and a half of wrestling with rounded out allen key bolt on the thermostat housing, i've managed to get my broken crack pipe off the front of the engine, but can't seem to get the new one back into the water pump end far enough :-/ is there a special nack to doing it, or just push harder and hit harder?Help much appreciated, cheers, Ollie Link to post Share on other sites
spindat45 0 Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 I was fortunate enough to replace one of these on mine before fitting another engine. If you can get to the back of the water pump (from underneath is easiest) see if you can feel a rough edge on the engine block where the pipe goes in. That area gets corroded so that may be why you can't get the new pipe in with the new seal fitted. Get rid of the corrosion with a coarse sandpaper, and then apply a little grease to the o-ring. Be careful not to damage the o-ring when pushing the crack pipe in. I place a piece of wood on the end of the pipe and tapped gently but as i said the engine was out so it was a lot easier. Hope this helps.Kevin Link to post Share on other sites
ollie_ 0 Posted June 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 brilliant, cheers man, i'll give that a try Link to post Share on other sites
Pearsy47 1 Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 the way i done it was gease up both the crack pipe and the hole and gave it a little bit of pressure then pop in it went !! lol Link to post Share on other sites
ollie_ 0 Posted June 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 well, i've spent yet another day at it, and still no luck...getting rather tedious this pushing and hammering lol!i've tried wet and drying the water pump, even had a file on it at one point, and still not working! May have to be a new water pump i fricking need it for saturday for inters though! Link to post Share on other sites
dman78 1 Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 as said above there might be some corrosion,i did mine and it had it on the water pump Link to post Share on other sites
ollie_ 0 Posted June 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2010 finally got it in, and now everything's running hot brilliant Link to post Share on other sites
Antihero1981 8 Posted June 24, 2010 Report Share Posted June 24, 2010 you sure you put everything back in correct order? Link to post Share on other sites
spindat45 0 Posted June 24, 2010 Report Share Posted June 24, 2010 When you say it's running hot is it overheating and if so, was it overheating before you changed the crackpipe? Also did you replace the thermostat? Link to post Share on other sites
ollie_ 0 Posted June 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2010 yup, everythings back together right. Well, it's impossible to be put back wrong surely? It was running hot before i changed the crack pipe yeah, now it's running hotter sits just above 110, but if i have the heaters on, just under 110. Rather confusing, and annoying as i need to drive it to inters on saturday! Link to post Share on other sites
gwillhulk 0 Posted June 27, 2010 Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 yeah you can in a way lol... but did you replace just the crack pipe or the whole thing inc. thermosat? and did you flush the water ways out? Link to post Share on other sites
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