Miata gone sprung a leak

"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678) 09/16/2019 at 00:34 • Filed to: None

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But at least I have some nice photos from a recent drive home when I pulled over to let a slow person get ahead enough to not be in my damn way on one of my favorite canyon roads.

I recently installed a nice upgraded radiator but of course I am not done with cooling system problems. I now have a hose at the rear of the engine that has sprung a leak in dramatic fashion. I believe it has been a slow leak for a couple of days since I couldn’t trace it but it smelled slightly like hot water (not running any coolant in there, but the water wetter has a scent at least and residual coolant still smells anyways). Now it’s definitely obviously leaking as I parked at home after dinner and the loud hissing followed by puddle of water easily traced back to a hose. Upon a quick Google-fu ths turned out to be one of the smaller hoses running about amongst the oil cooler and the front/rear of the engine. These don’t look fun to replace but such is life on a car with 250,000 miles. The new higher pressure rad and cap probably caused this hose to fail so I’ll for sure replace any of the old hoses that I haven’t yet replaced. Time to drain and fill my cooling system for the fourth time this year, h ooray!

Anyways more pictures.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 09/16/2019 at 01:01

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better to have replaced all the hoses in one go

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 09/16/2019 at 01:15

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That car does not look like it has 250,000 miles. Looks like it has 10. 

shop-teacher > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 09/16/2019 at 07:19

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Well, that's a pain. Yeah, best to replace all the hoses.

Cash Rewards > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 09/16/2019 at 07:48

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Time for a reroute

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > pip bip - choose Corrour 09/16/2019 at 09:40

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Well that's the plan now. But usually those small hoses don't get replaced just because of the pain it takes to do so. I did the top and bottom hose and the heater hoses on the other side were replaced by previous owner. 

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 09/16/2019 at 09:41

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Socal lol

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Cash Rewards 09/16/2019 at 09:43

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If only that didn't entail a head gasket change on this car.. I mean that's what the Internet tells me at least and I don't really want to test that theory unless I had a reason to replace that anyways. 

Cash Rewards > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 09/16/2019 at 11:03

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The different head gaskets on the 01+'s? Yeah, I don't know about that

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Cash Rewards 09/16/2019 at 12:49

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From what I understand Mazda attempted to “fix” the cooling issues by using a headgasket which distributed the coolant better in the 01+. The coolant reroute might still “work” with it anyways but I have seen enough suggestions saying that switching to the NB1 gasket is needed. Rerouting the coolant as is would cause different cooling issues that I am worried about. I dont like doing mods to a car if I am not sure about side effects like that. 

MM54 > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 09/16/2019 at 20:23

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Sounds like you have it under control - and definitely to them all while you’re at it.

CaptDale - is secretly British > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 09/17/2019 at 10:35

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You’ll have to bring that toy out sometime instead of silly Teslas

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > CaptDale - is secretly British 09/17/2019 at 11:05

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Now that youre living down here, we should plan a legitimate drive. Probably after I fix my leaks and you finish the suspension on the vette. Then itll be a good time to go break test everything. Ill be on work travel the next couple of weeks but I should have the weekend of the 5th to fix my car and then totally free columbus day weekend to do something cool with cars since my girlfriend will be in Poland. She gets to go to way cooler places for work while I get stuck with visiting Floridaman land. 

CaptDale - is secretly British > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 09/18/2019 at 00:22

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That weekend should be good for me. Probably have all the parts settled and adjusted and broken parts replaced  maybe other services finished too.