Threedogs motor thread

[the evil twin]

The hose split along almost its entire length and as it happened just as I was entering the town I coasted into the garage and the mechanic took over from there. Lucky it happened where it did or I would have had to muck about with it to get it going, or use my RACV total care to come to the rescue.

Just sayin' for future issues or for others...

Any hose same dia will do, you can even chop up the 'outlet' hose if needs be
Thats also why I carry a couple of inches of offcuts in my emergency kit

This new fangled idea where the water circulates continuously you need to block inlet and return

Old school was even easier, just loop the pipes or turn off the heater tap you only had to block the return.
An EH Holden I had went for months with a whittled down piece of gum tree branch as a bung when the heater core split.

[threedogs]

Ha Ha,,,have you seen the "stuff" that comes out of a blocked EH heater core yuk lol

[the evil twin]

Ha Ha,,,have you seen the "stuff" that comes out of a block EH heater core yuk lol

The girlfriend sure did... dunno why I got the blame I wasn't wearing the white slack suit and she was the one who turned it on.

I mean to say when something hysterically funny like that happens it takes a while for a bloke to stop laughing.

Ah well, it wasn't meant to be, no sense of humour, fantastic set of t... uuummmm... toenails but no sense of funny at all

[mudski]

Or carry a couple of blanking caps better still fit a couple of taps on the outlets might even make the air conditioning run a bit cooler

Or keep some 5/8 barb joiners in your tool box...
Ive been thinking about running a heater tap on my GU, somewhere, so when the temp control is set to cool, the tap will just close off the system and recirculate the coolant through the tap. As im not sure if there would be any detrimental affect to just blocking the heater hose.
Having a heater tap would solve the warm air issues with these GU's i reckon.

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[the evil twin]

snip...
Having a heater tap would solve the warm air issues with these GU's i reckon.

Yeah... pain in the rrse isn't it.

[Kimbo63]

Can't see it having any effect on the cooling system having two taps on the hoses where they come out of the block turn off in summer and back on for winter we did this to all the excavators made a big difference to the performance of the aircond

[mudski]

Can't see it having any effect on the cooling system having two taps on the hoses where they come out of the block turn off in summer and back on for winter we did this to all the excavators made a big difference to the performance of the aircond

Mate. Mate! In cab style I want. Turn the temp to cold and off she goes.... Got it half worked out in my head.... But I wont trash this thread about it....

[macca]

Or keep some 5/8 barb joiners in your tool box...
Ive been thinking about running a heater tap on my GU, somewhere, so when the temp control is set to cool, the tap will just close off the system and recirculate the coolant through the tap. As im not sure if there would be any detrimental affect to just blocking the heater hose.
Having a heater tap would solve the warm air issues with these GU's i reckon.

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Suffered with this too, fitted an electric valve in the heater water circuit. It doesnt effect the cooling system at all.

The warm air still enters the cab! it comes from across the bonnet into the fresh air grill where the wipers are.
At speed its not a problem, but slow running in the bush or traffic the warm air above the bonnet is the source.

[the evil twin]

So what was the actual original problem?

Started off with Sub Tank Warning Light was on all the time...

Using a logical fault-finding technique to make sure we don't miss anything we are working our way thru the alphabet.

We have got to 'R' for Radiator so should have it sorted in under 300 posts if all goes well

Only problem on the horizon is when we get to 'S' for Sarcasm (bloody dirty thankless task that is so not looking forward to that at all)

[mudski]

Any updates John? How are the temps? Any more water leaks?