Quoting: Titsy
She's bleeding coolant and oil badly, but he has her on regular transfusions....
UPDATE !She passed
139,000 miles a couple of days ago . . . . !
She's only a few miles from achieving (unbelieveably)
23,000 miles in my ownership (PhilO will tell you that's around 35-40,000 miles without an oil change).
She's over-heated twice this week due to lack of water so -
Regarding the water leak . . . . I finally decided to do a little mythbusting and roughly crushed about a level dessert spoon full of black pepper corns . . . .
So far, and this could be coincidence, it appears to have actually slowed the leak . . . maybe even stopped it (but this is hard to tell with the rain).