These coolant pipes are in a bad way, do you think its just rusty gunk rather than mayo?

 

Its definitely Mayo, the engine oil was exactly the same so whatever happened it went from coolant to oil and oil to coolant, when I drained the oil my drain bowl overflowed all over the drive with about 15 litres of the stuff.

 

Looks like an alien burst out of it. Watch out for face huggers. :dunno:

 

I really can't understand why "Rover" then laterly "MG-Rover" put mild steel coolant pipes on the F/TF !!!! They must have known that it was a catasrophy waiting to happen !! Stainless steel pipes on the original build would not have cost too much to install !! Bearing in mind with the original sale price, they were making huge profits on these cars !! Approx £18K in 1996 !!!...
Oh well......and the rest they say is history !! Shame !! Also proof that the company was very badly managed !!.....

 

I really can't understand why "Rover" then laterly "MG-Rover" put mild steel coolant pipes on the F/TF !!!! They must have known that it was a catasrophy waiting to happen !! Stainless steel pipes on the original build would not have cost too much to install !! Bearing in mind with the original sale price, they were making huge profits on these cars !! Approx £18K in 1996 !!!...
Oh well......and the rest they say is history !! Shame !! Also proof that the company was very badly managed !!.....

Just replaced the pipes on my car - its 11, and done 60k miles. I guess they were designed to last "10 years or 100k - whichever comes first"

Replaced my pipes with SS

 

"I need to remove the exhaust to get at the sump but as all the bolts are seized solid and rusty as the titanic I am thinking it might be easier and quicker to just disconnect the exhaust at the manifold and get rid of the hole thing and add an exhaust, cat and flexible pipe".

I have a new ss exhaust and manifold waiting in the garage to go on mine. I know the flexi pipe is on the way but they let it through MOT in Feb which surprised me so I thought I would wait till circumstances insisted. Any way not having the time or patience to face those bolts and a little nervous of grinding sparks under the car in front of my house, will the whole thing come off in one lump from the manifold? I can do safe surgery then away from the car to rescue the cat.

 

I drive in -30 every winter and that has never happened to me, So, the cold winter you just had combined with a higher freezing point of the mix of oil and water and a little coolant would do the trick, also the pipes looked like that are more rust than steel....... SS is the way to go.....