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Im loosing water from the coolant. Oil looks fine, no mayo or anything like that. Can someone help me pleaseee

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Two main possibilities, either it's leaking into the big wide world, or it's leaking into a combustion chamber.  The former will leave a pinkish crusty residue around the leak point (use Mk1 eyeball to find), the latter will tend to result in your expansion tank having some positive pressure inside it even after sitting overnight. 

Investigating the expansion tank is easy, just loosen the cap one morning before starting the engine and listen (no noise is good news).

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Check the heater pipes in the engine bay where they go through the bulkhead, they often leak there when hot and drip onto the exhaust thus leaving no water puddles on the ground.

 

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Check the bottom right hand corner of the radiator, look for drips while the engine's hot and running. If the cooling system is pressurising then you have head lift and need to change the HG and the bolts.

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Wino.

I done that and they was a little noise coming from it. What does that mean ??

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Probably your head gasket leaking slightly. Search for 'head lift' in this forum and you'll see it mentioned quite a bit, I think.

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