Coolant line failure
10-20-2016, 04:19 PM
#16
yeah i think it was towards end of session, i'd come in a lap or 2 early so I missed it luckily. i've hit coolant a couple times, luckily at slow speeds, and it's not pleasant. I know the owner of the car casually from the club, i think he's on here but will let him discuss it. Again, pretty sure he was pinned so not sure what happened. He's a really good/fast driver.
Terrible week-end for me and terrible start for everyone else. The first 2 sessions of the advanced group got red flagged. Second session was because of my coolant pipes failure. I felt really bad so offered to go out there to help cleanup, brutal work!
Car is being checked now, I'll report back once I get more details. But yes lines were pinned so should not have happened!
10-20-2016, 09:17 PM
#17
Rennlist Member
:-(
Really sorry to hear this. Please do let us know what it ends up being.
No harm done to anyone and I don't think cleanup took too long.
Btw I still have WW in my car....
Check pm
Really sorry to hear this. Please do let us know what it ends up being.
No harm done to anyone and I don't think cleanup took too long.
Btw I still have WW in my car....
Check pm
10-21-2016, 01:27 PM
#18
Rennlist Member
Sorry to hear that Ti-Jean 
I'm glad you and others around you only lost some track time.
I'm glad you and others around you only lost some track time.
10-21-2016, 01:39 PM
#19
Burning Brakes
Yes it was me... I'm beyond pissed and upset about this. Ran the car with water/water wetter for >2yrs until I finally had the lines pinned last year. I switched to coolant just last month thinking I'm fine...
Terrible week-end for me and terrible start for everyone else. The first 2 sessions of the advanced group got red flagged. Second session was because of my coolant pipes failure. I felt really bad so offered to go out there to help cleanup, brutal work!
Car is being checked now, I'll report back once I get more details. But yes lines were pinned so should not have happened!
Terrible week-end for me and terrible start for everyone else. The first 2 sessions of the advanced group got red flagged. Second session was because of my coolant pipes failure. I felt really bad so offered to go out there to help cleanup, brutal work!
Car is being checked now, I'll report back once I get more details. But yes lines were pinned so should not have happened!
was leaning pinning....but maybe i should give welded another look.
10-21-2016, 02:38 PM
#20
Race Car
Yes it was me... I'm beyond pissed and upset about this. Ran the car with water/water wetter for >2yrs until I finally had the lines pinned last year. I switched to coolant just last month thinking I'm fine...
Terrible week-end for me and terrible start for everyone else. The first 2 sessions of the advanced group got red flagged. Second session was because of my coolant pipes failure. I felt really bad so offered to go out there to help cleanup, brutal work!
Car is being checked now, I'll report back once I get more details. But yes lines were pinned so should not have happened!
Terrible week-end for me and terrible start for everyone else. The first 2 sessions of the advanced group got red flagged. Second session was because of my coolant pipes failure. I felt really bad so offered to go out there to help cleanup, brutal work!
Car is being checked now, I'll report back once I get more details. But yes lines were pinned so should not have happened!
That one would have been pretty obvious though, where was the coolant coming from? Were the lines under the oil cooler pinned?
10-22-2016, 06:55 PM
#22
Wanted to report back in regards to my failure. It turned out the line that failed was not pinned, so nothing to do about pinning not working or anything like that. Now what keeps ringing in my head is why that line was not pinned. I'm told that line goes into the oil cooler. I'm no mechanic so just reporting. Engine was dropped and inspected to see if any other lines were missed and there was one other... was pulled out by ~1/8" so would have failed eventually as well.
Here's my thread on the 996 gt3 subsection with pictures.
https://rennlist.com/forums/996-gt2-...-on-track.html
Here's my thread on the 996 gt3 subsection with pictures.
https://rennlist.com/forums/996-gt2-...-on-track.html