Hissing

[RichardM]

Out with the missus and a couple of friends on a long (100+ mile) journey.Anyway arrive home early sunday morning when its dead quiet.As Missus gets out of car she says "whats that hissing?" Now I know she's got exceptional hearing she can hear me cursin' under my breath from 50' away. Anyway I feel it necessary to investigate before cooldown so I'm having a look at 3.00am in the morning.
Find a drop of water sizzling on the catalyst, from above, find its condensate from the aircon dropping from the "overflow pipe" down on the very top of heat shield and then running down onto the hot bit of the catalyst. All normal.
Beware false alarms !

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RichardM
1997 Damson S14
http://www.animfactory.com/animations/transportation/cars/mirror_md_clr.gif

[JB]

Yeah that happened to me the other week. Gave me quite a shock till I woked out what it was.

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JB
'00 Emerald S14 auto
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[JohnD76]

Mine does that too, scared the poo out of me. Then I worked out what it was http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/biggrin.gif.



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John (S14a)
Blitz Nur Spec, SUS, MSTT
222.8hp @ 6062 RPM
206.2lb ft @ 4755 RRM
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[geoff_s14]

Yeah, heard that, felt that, realised that. I woonder why they design the thing to drip onto the manifold like that. The old s14's didn't do it.

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Geoff
Emerald S14, heavily modified by shopping trolleys.
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[Spaniel]

Err, one's doing it today.

I've never noticed it before, but looking under the car, I saw a water leak that looked exactly like one I had that cost hundreds to put right. Opening the bonnet I could see the water was coming from a little rubber pipe (air con) and would have been dripping onto the manifold heat shield if mine was fitted.

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Jon in Dewsbury
'95 Blue/green S14
Unleaded for a bit longer !! http://mysmilies.com/cgi-bin/r.cgi?cwm/cwm