Right back again with my biggest problem to date with this nightmare Golf, my partner owns this car now, and everything has been going well resolving most my issues with the advice and answers to my questions given here at AP, now to my trouble, she rang in a panic last night after leaving work for home, saying there was smoke from engine bay (car has engine BKD), I asked if it was smoke or steam (being a woman I knew it was probably steam ![bigsmile2]( "bigsmile2")
), anyhow I jumped in my car to go to the breakdown and wait with her till the aa relayed the car home, when I got there I was right in my thinking and was in fact steam, I could see down in between the top of engine and the EGR cooler water was dripping onto the exhaust manifold causing the steam, so today when I finished work I decided to investigate the issue, i used a borescope to look all around the EGR cooler and surrounding areas for the leak, only place I could see water was from the aluminum carrier/holder bracket bottom central allen stud which holds the EGR cooler to the head, I have a damaged engine for spares which has that part on, so I removed it from there to check how it was connected to the head, and if there was a possibility that water could come from there it doesn't look like this would be a part that could leak water, as its only a threaded stand off so to speak to bolt the EGR cooler bracket onto, I couldn't see any where else water could have traveled from then to that point, any ideas what I should be checking for now, and procedure to do any checks which will locate the problem?
), anyhow I jumped in my car to go to the breakdown and wait with her till the aa relayed the car home, when I got there I was right in my thinking and was in fact steam, I could see down in between the top of engine and the EGR cooler water was dripping onto the exhaust manifold causing the steam, so today when I finished work I decided to investigate the issue, i used a borescope to look all around the EGR cooler and surrounding areas for the leak, only place I could see water was from the aluminum carrier/holder bracket bottom central allen stud which holds the EGR cooler to the head, I have a damaged engine for spares which has that part on, so I removed it from there to check how it was connected to the head, and if there was a possibility that water could come from there it doesn't look like this would be a part that could leak water, as its only a threaded stand off so to speak to bolt the EGR cooler bracket onto, I couldn't see any where else water could have traveled from then to that point, any ideas what I should be checking for now, and procedure to do any checks which will locate the problem?