Pinkythelabrat
A2OC Donor
I know it’s not an A2 but I know there is a load of engine-expertise on this lovely forum so I’m hoping someone with less of a tin ear can give me some advice.
My 1989 VW T25 campervan (a 1.9 petrol boxer) recently started making a very odd noise under load on a lovely trip to Eilean Donan Castle through snow covered mountains. No real change in power that I noticed but very ‘rattly’.
When I looked underneath the bracket which holds the front exhaust section had lost a bolt and clamp section and the exhaust pipe had split. I repaired this and the fix is looking good but with my head now under the van the engine does not sound happy.
It is rattly, appears to lurch every few strokes and is clattering. I cant feel any particular play in the engine and the exhaust looks well restrained - the whole lump is juddering.
Other fun symptoms - she really doesn’t like to start from cold or if a few days have passed. There was white exhaust on start up for a few mins (but she’s sat unrun for three weeks) and that appeared to dissipate) and she’s now going through coolant - I have topped up a litre in the last two trips. It may just be a radiator or coolant hose leak but the ground in Scotland is never dry to see puddles.
I am very afraid that someone is going to say head gasket but I can’t explain the noise with just a leak. I do have a coolant gas test kit so I’ll need to find somewhere to stick this in. Oil seemed fine and I don’t seem to be losing any.
Can lovely people please have a listen and see if I’m just being an idiot - I’m too used to my 2002 three pot TDi so am a bit numb to noisy engines. Does this sound right?
Help!
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My 1989 VW T25 campervan (a 1.9 petrol boxer) recently started making a very odd noise under load on a lovely trip to Eilean Donan Castle through snow covered mountains. No real change in power that I noticed but very ‘rattly’.
When I looked underneath the bracket which holds the front exhaust section had lost a bolt and clamp section and the exhaust pipe had split. I repaired this and the fix is looking good but with my head now under the van the engine does not sound happy.
It is rattly, appears to lurch every few strokes and is clattering. I cant feel any particular play in the engine and the exhaust looks well restrained - the whole lump is juddering.
Other fun symptoms - she really doesn’t like to start from cold or if a few days have passed. There was white exhaust on start up for a few mins (but she’s sat unrun for three weeks) and that appeared to dissipate) and she’s now going through coolant - I have topped up a litre in the last two trips. It may just be a radiator or coolant hose leak but the ground in Scotland is never dry to see puddles.
I am very afraid that someone is going to say head gasket but I can’t explain the noise with just a leak. I do have a coolant gas test kit so I’ll need to find somewhere to stick this in. Oil seemed fine and I don’t seem to be losing any.
Can lovely people please have a listen and see if I’m just being an idiot - I’m too used to my 2002 three pot TDi so am a bit numb to noisy engines. Does this sound right?
Help!
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