I'm Worried!!!

[flukey-lukey]

:( A very experience mechanic has just been taking a look under my bonnet and felt the return pipe to the radiator and said there was pressure in it as it was 'hard'. Got me worried because he said this could be due to the head on its way out or a crack in the head etc!?

The car drives fine, pulls very well and the temp gauge sits at a fraction under the halfway mark all the time, do I have reason to be worried or is he trying to set himself up for billing me a heafty repair bill? advice please :)

regards, Luke

[Soonto"HAS"soop]

If it is hot then I would expect it to be hard and under pressure, normally around 1.3bar if you have an uprated radiator cap.

[Bob]

Of course it's going to be under pressure. It's hardly gravity fed, is it? Or it might just have done what most of the pipes on mine seem to have doneover the years, and gone hard and fragile rather than squidgy and wubbewy.

[Fifty]

Cant be setting you up ecause he obviously wouldnt have a clue about changing a MKIV head - stop worrying.
on second thoughts....when engine is COLD and you run it with the cap off what happens?
Rich:D

[chilli]

bubbles in the rad / expansion is the obvious tell tale sign isn't it?

also creamy oil, loosing water over time....

either way, hardly likely to be a 'cracked' head, head gasket at the worst but sounds like your car is fine!

[flukey-lukey]

cool, thanks for all ur replies... i have come to the conclusion he must have been winding me up as oil is fine, water is fine, temp is fine, no smoke from zorst etc...and she still drives like a dream :)

thanks again everyone, Luke