myke
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works a treat for unblocking your water hoses.
after my head went porous i've had emulsified oil blocking my coolant pipes.
the head was repaired, and i flushed the hoses and my radiator as best i could with a garden hose, but there was still loadsa shite left hanging about in there. kept making the hoses pressurise. must have been blocked somewhere.
anyway, i'd been looking for this Forte product called bio-degreaser which is supposedly the right product to get the oil out of my hoses.
http://www.forteuk.co.uk/Bio_degreaser.htm
i called them to find my nearest stockist, who turned out to be a garage just up the road.
i went in there to see if they could get hold of some for me, and after explaining my problem, the mechanic told me to stick a load of Daz or similar in the header tank and let it get nice and hot.
i chucked a cupfull in tonight, and my heaters started working again after just a few minutes(matrix was blocked).
never would have thought about putting washing powder in the coolant, but it worked wonders 
damn site cheaper than the forte stuff too.
happy chappy again 
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Mattb
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 i like that idea
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the_legend_of_yrag
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myke
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just gotta remember to flush it through again when i get some daylight.
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Mattb
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nah sod it, leave it in, pop yer socks in your header tank and when you get to where your going, take em out and sello tape the socks to your rocker cover and go home. when you get home youve got clean dry socks 
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myke
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bargain.
could chuck a few rashers of bacon on the cam cover too? 
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Mattb
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breakfast and clean socks.. all a man needs..
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Mistamist
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chicken wrapped in foil, with potatoes and rest it on the manifold, you got yourself a succulent sunday lunch
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Stoneyginger
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my engine seems to have the same problem but with mine when i drained the thermastat side of things the header tank level never moved at all until it had been driven for a little while, the water is clean so i can only assume that something is wrong and blocked. Am i right in saying this will do no damage at all even if flushed out after the clog may be cleared?
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myke
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if there's a samll airlock, then that may keep the water in the bottle from flowing around.
once the engine is started, the pump should pull the water down.
if the heaters are working, the fan is working, and the car doesn't overheat, then i shouldn't worry about it too much.
you know if your head was porous as the tank would be full of stiff beige jelly.
i took my tank out and held it upside down, and the stuff still didn't come out untill it was shaken vigorously.
very messy.
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Stoneyginger
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my head was porus but was sorted and the garage did their best to flush the crap out. recently it has slowly began to run hotter almost as if the clogging is getting worse. the temp now sits constantly at the bar below the 100 degree mark even after 1 mile from stone cold. i have not used the car since and i am tryin to work out what is wrong tomorrow. I'm 100% it may be a blockage now :S though the heaters work so it must be the front of engine i would think :S
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Stoneyginger
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forgot to mention the water is spotless and the oil is fine so its not a recurring fault! to do with the head having been porus
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myke
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do the hoses go solid when the temp goes up?
mine did that, which was caused by the blocks.
flush it a few more times, and it should freee up.
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Ian
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Does it come with the bonus of a lovely smell
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Stoneyginger
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the pipe that leads from the raidiator to the header tank goes solid but all the rest are soft ie the thermastat to rad one and my heaters are all working. could just be the pipe leading from head to radiator 
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Mistamist
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only if teamed up with fabric conditioner
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myke
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i thought i could smell it through the vents actually, but i'd left the cup that i brought the powder out in in the door pocket, and it was that that i could smell.
stoney, take that hose off and see if you can blow through it.
you should be able to see it overflowing back into the water bottle through the neck.
if it's not moving, then somethings up.
you could always disconnect the hose from the bottle and drape it over the front of the car to the floor to see if anything comes out when the engines running.
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Stoneyginger
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