Just out for a drive and I'm loosing coolant

[m3jappa]

Just out for a spirited drive, stopped for fuel, cAme back and I hear a hissing noise, look under car and coolant is coming out
Turned car off, max temp was 96 water 92 oil and got oil pressure fine

What should I do? Is it just coming out of an overflow? Can I just top up and go once she's cooled down?

Or is it a recovery truck

[m3jappa]

Right,

Stopped leaking now, looked under car and it's possibly lost a pint

Checked coolant level and it's at the bottom of the pipe where the cap is

Top up with 50:50 coolant and water?

[blueg33]

Have you recently topped up the coolant? TVRpower say its sort of self levelling if over filled. mine did it on the RR, but seems fine.

If temps read ok I reckon u r ok

[m3jappa]

Managed to get bonnet off, pipe behind water pump which feeds or is fed to the rail in front of engine has a tiny split in it, so am now waiting for the rac

I reckon the jubilee clip was a bit tight, either way I'll change them to silicone I reckon.

[nrick]

See my thread, if you need any help let me know.

[m3jappa]

I'll have a look mate, cheers


Anyway, rac man came and what a good bloke he was, it would have been too easy for him to just get it picked up on a low loader but no, he messed about and did the job for me, luckily the hose which split wplit in a position that meant we could turn the hose round and still use it, probably took him a good hour to do as it was so awkward.
Turned out he used to have a tvr (kept saying griffin) not sure if he meant griffith though? said it was a 5ltr v8

On the way home the roads were clear too

What a night though, did about 40 miles on some awesome b roads, had a little play with an r8 spider then a thrash on the way home, did hit a poor rabbit though i tried to avoid him but lets just say a quick dab of the brakes re assured me to carry on poor thing (i hate running things over but sometimes its either hit them or crash yourself).

How many people could break down, be stranded for about 3 hours and get home buzzing off adrenalin though This car is so so awesome now its sorted!

[blueg33]

m3jappa said:

I'll have a look mate, cheers


Anyway, rac man came and what a good bloke he was, it would have been too easy for him to just get it picked up on a low loader but no, he messed about and did the job for me, luckily the hose which split wplit in a position that meant we could turn the hose round and still use it, probably took him a good hour to do as it was so awkward.
Turned out he used to have a tvr (kept saying griffin) not sure if he meant griffith though? said it was a 5ltr v8

On the way home the roads were clear too

What a night though, did about 40 miles on some awesome b roads, had a little play with an r8 spider then a thrash on the way home, did hit a poor rabbit though i tried to avoid him but lets just say a quick dab of the brakes re assured me to carry on poor thing (i hate running things over but sometimes its either hit them or crash yourself).

How many people could break down, be stranded for about 3 hours and get home buzzing off adrenalin though This car is so so awesome now its sorted!

Pleased it was an easy fix.

[Basil Brush]

If you mean the smaller diameter one that runs alongside the block, mine split last year. I bought a meter of hose from halfords for about a fiver and cut a piece to fit.