Radiator problem

[flanders010]

Picked up my W reg vts yesterday and i am very happy with it but i have a problem already. Sometimes when i have stopped there is water coming out of the little hole near the expansion cap. i took the cap off and there was all gunk in it so i cleaned it off and put it back on but to no avail. Just wondering weather there was anything else i should look at

Cheers Ben

[jacko18]

what type of gunk is it? best thing to do is to get to a scrappy mate an get a new lid. by the way im jack vickys son :y: do some work haha!!!

[dirty0harry]

either you have an air lock in the water system or your head gasket has blown,run the car up to temp with the top off your expansion tank,if its an air lock it'll clear if not it will continue too spill out.also check your thermostat,could be stuck!hope this helps:y:

[flanders010]

what type of gunk is it? best thing to do is to get to a scrappy mate an get a new lid. by the way im jack vickys son :y: do some work haha!!!

Work whats THAT? going to go the scrappy tomorrow just woundering weather its anything else!

[flanders010]

either you have an air lock in the water system or your head gasket has blown,run the car up to temp with the top off your expansion tank,if its an air lock it'll clear if not it will continue too spill out.also check your thermostat,could be stuck!hope this helps:y:

Thing is it runs at the same temp or around the same temp all day long brought it from brum and it was ok!

[dirty0harry]

Thing is it runs at the same temp or around the same temp all day long brought it from brum and it was ok!

yes m8,sounds like an air lock then:y:

[flanders010]

Just went to take the cap off and under it where was quite a bit of gunk looked like spunk so iam thinking the headgasket has gone what do you think?

[dirty0harry]

yes if you got milky /oily water time for a new gasket:y: (the rep button is your friend;) )

[jacko18]

open the oil cap and look under here.if the same gunky shit is in there aswel then ul looking at the headgasket has gone! and that aint really cheap.anothing thing you can do is at the other end of the radiator there is a bleed valve where you can let the air out of the radiator.best thing to do is drain the system and bleed it with the valve open to get rid of any air in the system if is still persists after a day go get the head pressure tested the you will no for sure.