Is this as bad as I fear it is?

[Monsterlime]

I have a suspicion my head gasket has just failed, or at the very least a hose has split and the water pump is failing?

This hose (on the left side from sitting in the car, just behind the swirl pot and I assume going into the water pump) -


Definitely split, as you can see. Before I took the picture, the reason I noticed it was because there was some brown mayoy stuff in/on the split parts, a bit of which you can see at the bottom.

A pic of a little (I wiped off the first lot before taking a picture) -



However, my oil on the dipstick is clean (split hose circled in red again) -



The coolant in the expansion tank is also fine (but I could only see a little, not long come back from a drive so couldn't take off the swirl pot cap to check) and the oil in the head, from what I can see, looks fine.

Car ran fine as well, temps were fine etc so if it is the gasket, it can't have long gone. Unless I am wrong about this hose being a coolant hose into the water pump?

[Zener]

Thats the h/pressure PAS hose not coolant , and thats the outed casing breached so replacement will need to be shortly

[Monsterlime]

Ok, thank you. That is a relief! While still not good, much better than a head gasket!

[rigga]

And just for information, not all head gasket failures result in coolant in oil and vice versa.,only when the bridge part between those passages fail, gasket can leak elsewhere.

[Steve_D]

You can buy a kit of hoses to fix that.
Most owners fit the kit because they cannot stop fluid leaking from the U bend you can see behind your split hose.

Steve

[Zener]

Steve_D said:

You can buy a kit of hoses to fix that.
Most owners fit the kit because they cannot stop fluid leaking from the U bend you can see behind your split hose.

Steve

This ^ fitted 4 of the John Zubak kits over the years all good no problems and no more leaks

[Hedgehopper]

Yes, it's a nice kit and easy to fit especially if you don't want the trouble of having your own hoses made up. Completely cures the u-bend problem.

https://chimaerapartsonline.co.uk/