Water in places it shouldn’t be

We’re quite lucky in that our bathroom actually has a bath in it. However, it drains into a hole in the floor that, with an air trap in it, that, every couple of months or so, needs to be removed and have gunk taken out of it. If we don’t do this then the bath will eventually stop draining properly and water will spill out onto the floor.

Unfortunately, the only way to get the to the air trap is to slide the bath across the bathroom. Last night we did this and this morning the bath drained as it should.

On the way back from skiing up on Golsfjellet I noticed that the Syncro’s temperature warning light was flashing like mad. We stopped in the centre of Gol and I crawled under the van whilst Damae went off to get some antifreeze. I found the leak, and we made it home without any further drama (well assuming the engine hasn’t been damaged). I checked the hose where it was leaking to find that it was just a jubilee clip that had worked loose. The RV 51 is very rough at the moment with chewed up snow, deep ruts and washboard road surface in many places. I’m assuming that the jubilee clip worked loose in the last couple of trips up the hill.

So today, I am going to walk down to Biltema to pick up eleven bottles of antifreeze, drain the Syncro’s cooling system properly and then refill with the fresh antifreeze and copious amounts of water. It takes more than eighteen litres to fill it, of which nine litres is antifreeze.

Whilst it isn’t the sort of problem you want to have to fix in the midst of winter, we’re quite glad that the leak hadn’t happened up on Golsfjellet. It is also fortunate that the temperature is only -4’c today, still not a pleasant temperature to be doing such work in but a lot better than -20’c.

Wish me luck.

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  1. So glad that you coped so well with the bathroom and the car! I too have to get rid of gunge in Zagreb shower room (at least I have a bathroom now!) every now and then! Quite a feat to slide the bath across the bathroom!

    It is a huge amount of anti-freeze! We never have more than a litre at a time! Syncro is rather large…

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