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Originally Posted by kaiser
Ha ha. Only good news I'm not afraid to say!!
About 133000km now on the clock, and the car is perfect in all respects.
No water consumption, and absolutely no oil in the water.
I have added maybe half a cup twice since the operation, and I think most, or all, of that has seeped out around the T-piece, which, although made out of metal, could do with a tightening of the hose clamps. Now done.
I can only suggest you give it a try, provided you have carefully checked all the other options, which are
1. Water pump
2. Plastic T-piece
3. Inlet manifold
4. Radiator cap
5. rotten top rubber hose
and, obviously, the catch all
6. any other outside leak
Let us know what you find!!
Good luck
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Cheers kaiser, yes ive replaced the water pump (this blew its seal a while back and may have been completely unrelated but id only just added a bottle of steel seal, thats why i was pleased to hear you'd had no probs with the pump seal after adding k-seal) i then decided to do the job correctly and fit the multi layer head gasket for peace of mind , inlet manifold gasket and rad cap have all been changed as well as checking every hose for leaks. Anyway ive ordered a bottle of k-seal off the internet and fingers crossed.