Heaters..... meh

[Horney]

I hope you don't have PAS as all the pump and pulleys for that have to be removed to get at the water pump. Forgot to mention that bit!

nick

[Haribo!]

I hope you don't have PAS as all the pump and pulleys for that have to be removed to get at the water pump. Forgot to mention that bit!

nick

oh fcuk, I do have PAS, so this isnt a simple job.... grrr, il have to wait until next week then.  I hate relying on other people,

[Horney]

Well you need to slacken the PAS belt up, remove some of the brackets and then push the pump up and out of the way. You got a haynes manual as it's all covered in detail in there.

nick

[Jay]

^ Pretty easy (I'm a noob and I figured it out!) , though it did take me ages to figure it out when changing the PAS belt because I left the Haynes at home and I was at the outlaws changing the belt    :embarassed:

[Haribo!]

Well you need to slacken the PAS belt up, remove some of the brackets and then push the pump up and out of the way. You got a haynes manual as it's all covered in detail in there.

nick

Nah, I aint messing about with it, knowing my luck recently, il mess it up and be in a worse situation then I was to start with,

Anyone live near bath wanna come help me, feel free, theres a pint in it :p

[Haribo!]

to update, just went to investigate.

I let it idle for a while, and it begane to get warm..ish, warmer than usual anyway, and the temp dial on the dash got to about half way, it still wasnt HOT tho like when it works properly, no where near, just pleasantly warm.

Anyway, I went for a drive and the dial went back down and the air got cooler again.

All the pipes inside the engine bay were hot tho when I checked.

So we still thinking thermostat yeh? 

[Horney]

Yup, it should close when the temp drops due to flow through the rad. It's clearly stuck open and the cooling system is doing it's job too well when on the move.

Nick

[Haribo!]

Yup, it should close when the temp drops due to flow through the rad. It's clearly stuck open and the cooling system is doing it's job too well when on the move.

Nick

ah awsome, makes perfect sense

Cheers man, il pass that info to the peopel doing the job and hopefull theyl get it done.


*offers still open if anyone wants to earn a pint :p*

[jezza16v]

Remove the "valve things" and put copper pipe in instead

should have said in my original post, the valve things dont have the things inside as he poked them out so theyre doing what copper pipes would do i think?

Did they clamp off the small by-pass tube between the valve units? If not some of the heater water may go through this instead of the matrix. Even if the stat is missing or opening too soon you should still get some decent heat once its all warmed up, just takes a bit longer thats all.

I would agree that its a classic stat problem, one of the two stat housing bolts usually seizes and shears off btw, also the long bolt through the alternator/pas pump bracket can seize solid and you have to drop the lot to un-seize it (been there twice now). If you are not hardened to these issues then I suggest you leave it to somone who is.

[Haribo!]

Remove the "valve things" and put copper pipe in instead

should have said in my original post, the valve things dont have the things inside as he poked them out so theyre doing what copper pipes would do i think?

Did they clamp off the small by-pass tube between the valve units? If not some of the heater water may go through this instead of the matrix. Even if the stat is missing or opening too soon you should still get some decent heat once its all warmed up, just takes a bit longer thats all.

I would agree that its a classic stat problem, one of the two stat housing bolts usually seizes and shears off btw, also the long bolt through the alternator/pas pump bracket can seize solid and you have to drop the lot to un-seize it (been there twice now). If you are not hardened to these issues then I suggest you leave it to somone who is.

ah, this highlights my issue with working on my car,

and I can guarantee that all of those thing mentioned above would have happened to me had I attempted it!

Il wait and take it back to the pros

Thanks for the info.