smell of Celery

[billythefish]

My wife insists that every time we go out in the R4 she can smell celery,I myself can't smell it because I've been laid up for a couple of weeks with Flu and now I have a cold.
How she smells this I don't know because the engine sounds good and I've just came back from a 40 mile round trip, where it sat at 60mph the whole way, the head is not blown because I checked and there are no oily plugs.
any ideas?
billy

 

[malcolm]

I was wondering what would smell of Celery? Or better what could be described as smelling like that.

Amazingly it seems to be a common but poorly answered complaint on the internet. One site suggests binding front brakes (common on the R4). I removed my pads and cleaned up the bits they slide against a couple of weeks ago. Made the brakes work a lot better so well worth doing on the off-chance.

Alternatively is it possible you have celery propagating in your window frames? I'm growing moss in mine.

 

[billythefish]

like yourself Malcolm I have moss growing in mine, I have looked inside the engine compartment but can't smell anything, perhaps it's the heater core that is somehow the culprit or maybe the wife is going through the change again.
I will know better when this cold clears up.

 

[David M]

Celery?

Could it be the faint smell of anti-freeze?



Cheers,

David

 

[billythefish]

David,
It certainly could be anti- freeze but I will have to wait until my cold has cleared up to be sure.
billy