Well some light in the evenings so more preventative maintenance ongoing.for reference its a '91 200 tdi 90".
Did the water pump on Saturday, flushed the system decided I may as well scrap the inter-cooler and radiator as I figured corrosion is probably not an efficient heat exchange surface, the whole water pump replaced, thermostat replaced, all hoses flushed will have a new rad and new inter-cooler while I have it all stripped out, probably ought to do the alternator as well. While I was waiting for delivery of a fan spanner had a clean of the engine bay... then ran out of de greaser
no surprise
One issue that I've been having (hence work on the cooling system? ) is no heat coming into the cab, don't mean low heat but no heat, heater box could do with removing and the flap sealing and such like but the matrix has been flushed through and seems pretty clean and looks in good order I just can't understand while I get a fairly powerful flow from the blowers it doesn't drag any heat with it,
By passed the matrix with a bit of copper pipe and that certainly gets hot, but the heater matrix doesn't seem to be putting any heat into the cab anyway ill get it all cobbled back together and flush the system through and see whats what - if anyone has any insight then let me know!
Ive read all the posts about cable adjustments and such and my current thoughts are that there must have been a substantial airlock in the system, so if anyone can advise me best protocol for filling an entirely empty coolant system and bleeding the system that would be helpful to be getting on with.
Secondly in my cleaning of the engine bay i have found some wires.. Ive got a brown live with a female bullet type connector which is currently cable tied to some other wires near the washer bottle/ heater unit ( passenger side ) .. any ideas what that's for or where its meant to be plugged?
Again working across the front of the bulkhead in the engine bay i have green brown and black wires with a multi plug on the end coming from the drivers side heading 3/4 of the way across the front of the bulk head in the engine bay to the passenger side.. wondering if anything is meant to be in that?
I also have a white with purple trace, also with a bullet connector ( can remember gender ) coming from the bulk head on the drivers side.. wondering what that's for?
Vehicle had a new chassis with substantial work to the rest proceeding and during, so lots of plugging and unplugging of stuff has gone on ( vehicle performs absolutely spot on except for heater not working )
James.
Did the water pump on Saturday, flushed the system decided I may as well scrap the inter-cooler and radiator as I figured corrosion is probably not an efficient heat exchange surface, the whole water pump replaced, thermostat replaced, all hoses flushed will have a new rad and new inter-cooler while I have it all stripped out, probably ought to do the alternator as well. While I was waiting for delivery of a fan spanner had a clean of the engine bay... then ran out of de greaser
no surprise One issue that I've been having (hence work on the cooling system? ) is no heat coming into the cab, don't mean low heat but no heat, heater box could do with removing and the flap sealing and such like but the matrix has been flushed through and seems pretty clean and looks in good order I just can't understand while I get a fairly powerful flow from the blowers it doesn't drag any heat with it,
By passed the matrix with a bit of copper pipe and that certainly gets hot, but the heater matrix doesn't seem to be putting any heat into the cab anyway ill get it all cobbled back together and flush the system through and see whats what - if anyone has any insight then let me know!
Ive read all the posts about cable adjustments and such and my current thoughts are that there must have been a substantial airlock in the system, so if anyone can advise me best protocol for filling an entirely empty coolant system and bleeding the system that would be helpful to be getting on with.
Secondly in my cleaning of the engine bay i have found some wires.. Ive got a brown live with a female bullet type connector which is currently cable tied to some other wires near the washer bottle/ heater unit ( passenger side ) .. any ideas what that's for or where its meant to be plugged?
Again working across the front of the bulkhead in the engine bay i have green brown and black wires with a multi plug on the end coming from the drivers side heading 3/4 of the way across the front of the bulk head in the engine bay to the passenger side.. wondering if anything is meant to be in that?
I also have a white with purple trace, also with a bullet connector ( can remember gender ) coming from the bulk head on the drivers side.. wondering what that's for?
Vehicle had a new chassis with substantial work to the rest proceeding and during, so lots of plugging and unplugging of stuff has gone on ( vehicle performs absolutely spot on except for heater not working )
James.
