Hydramount - taste?

impvan · 7th December 2018, 21:08

My engine bay has acquired another wet patch.

It's forward of the upper engine mounting and tastes of glycol.
It's NOT coolant 'cos I've got a dye in that, and the new deposit doesn't glow.

I'm suspecting this is the giblets of the mount. Anyone confirm?

breakfastinsmethwick · 8th December 2018, 07:41

I seem to recall hydramounts are glycol filled. It would be dark due to elastomer contamination.

T-Cut · 8th December 2018, 10:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by impvan

Hydramount - taste? - - -tastes of glycol. Anyone confirm?

Ethylene glycol tastes sweet (causing well over over 5000 adult deaths a year). Confirmation is from crystals in the urine. If you notice that, you can be sure.

TC

COLVERT · 8th December 2018, 19:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by impvan

My engine bay has acquired another wet patch.

It's forward of the upper engine mounting and tastes of glycol.
It's NOT coolant 'cos I've got a dye in that, and the new deposit doesn't glow.

I'm suspecting this is the giblets of the mount. Anyone confirm?

I agree with the other posts above. Glycol.

I hope you don't go around licking other things to see what they taste like.-

--so you can identify them.

trikey · 8th December 2018, 20:54

Neat vodka neutralises it...

(Best not to drink it in the first place)

impvan · 8th December 2018, 21:00

Taste is just part of my diagnostic kit

Admittedly, it comes after a few of the other more HSWA-friendly techniques...

marinabrian · 8th December 2018, 21:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by impvan

Taste is just part of my diagnostic kit

Admittedly, it comes after a few of the other more HSWA-friendly techniques...

HSWA?, you haven't seen my workshop, it's a BLEVE in the waiting

That is why I'm moving out and having no more to do with the place

Brian

Lord of Hog · 10th December 2018, 09:44

Apply a blowtorch. Ethylene Glycol should produce thick white vapour along with the sweet smell already mentioned. Do be sure to carry this out with what's dripped onto the floor rather than what's in your engine bay.

7th December 2018, 21:08	#1
impvan Avid contributor ZT-T Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: In the trees, near Caernarfon... and frequently Aberdeenshire, and sometimes Romania.. Posts: 143 Thanks: 5 Thanked 36 Times in 29 Posts	Hydramount - taste? My engine bay has acquired another wet patch. It's forward of the upper engine mounting and tastes of glycol. It's NOT coolant 'cos I've got a dye in that, and the new deposit doesn't glow. I'm suspecting this is the giblets of the mount. Anyone confirm?

8th December 2018, 20:54	#5
trikey Premium Trader Rover 75 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Devon Posts: 33,763 Thanks: 8,837 Thanked 14,831 Times in 8,030 Posts	Neat vodka neutralises it... (Best not to drink it in the first place) __________________ Lest we forget..

10th December 2018, 09:44	#8
Lord of Hog Gets stuck in Rover 75 2.5 V6 in Wedgwood Blue Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Felbridge, East Grinstead Posts: 982 Thanks: 250 Thanked 294 Times in 206 Posts	Apply a blowtorch. Ethylene Glycol should produce thick white vapour along with the sweet smell already mentioned. Do be sure to carry this out with what's dripped onto the floor rather than what's in your engine bay. __________________ Conformity is not morality. Consensus is not truth.

8th December 2018, 07:41	#2
breakfastinsmethwick Gets stuck in Maintainer of sons ZT M47r Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Shropshire Posts: 624 Thanks: 609 Thanked 124 Times in 100 Posts	I seem to recall hydramounts are glycol filled. It would be dark due to elastomer contamination.

8th December 2018, 21:00	#6
impvan Avid contributor ZT-T Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: In the trees, near Caernarfon... and frequently Aberdeenshire, and sometimes Romania.. Posts: 143 Thanks: 5 Thanked 36 Times in 29 Posts	Taste is just part of my diagnostic kit Admittedly, it comes after a few of the other more HSWA-friendly techniques...