Coolant Bleeding 1994 2.4 Petrol

[tommy]

Press the rr button that switches to rear.

[sleemanj]

Press the rr button that switches to rear.

Hmm, when I pressed that button today, thinking it might, all the display showed was RR, do you just have to set it blind?

[N.r.g]

Once it displays RR hit the fan button to turn it on just like the front, then set to 32 and hold up for a few seconds till it displays FH

[sleemanj]

Once it displays RR hit the fan button to turn it on just like the front, then set to 32 and hold up for a few seconds till it displays FH

Ahh, probably I should have tried that

Give me a good old fashioned manual heater sliding knob any day, this new digital fangled stuff is too technologic

[N.r.g]

You want the engine cold n take the rubber filler cap off . Start her up n set all heaters to FH , keep the filler topped up until it stays full to the top and wait for all bubbles to stop comming out of it. Flick bypass valve over and it should take some water, if so retop up and be sure no bubbles come up. Undo passenger bleed pipe and bleed some out to be sure of no air. Keeping an eye on the temperature guage . Top up filler and should have no more bubbles. Refit filler rubber cap and run to temperature making sure all hoses heat up. This will take a while but when stat opens you will feel bottom rad hose get red hot.
If when you are filling with water it keeps taking water all the time and starts dripping from expansion bottle the engine radcap has not sealed properly. I got a new cap that didn't seal grrrrrr so be sure it does hold its water level and not fill the expansion tank. Get it so stat opens and take for a short drive ( give it some right foot) stop and check for any leaks and that all pipes are hot. Should be good to go then.
Quite simple when you know how and what to look for lol .
Let us know how you get on.

[N.r.g]

Man that was some typing on my phone lmao

[sleemanj]

Gah, this is doing my head in.

New fuel filter and lines, new air filter, bottle of injector cleaner in the tank. Took it for a run, all seemed sweet until about 10 k's away, then she just sputtered out and died. Of course, I rolled right into a no stopping zone. ARGH!

Tried starting. And tried. And tried. Turns over freely, just nothing happening. Flattened the battery.

About 1/2 an hour sitting there hoping the towie who was eyeing me up wasn't gonna come over and drag it away.

Write up some signs to put in the window asking the powers that be please to not tow it away while I went to find a phone (yea, of course, forgot my cell), and just before I got out I thought "one more try" and she fired up only slightly reluctantly.

Floored it (brakes are well hot now) to get home with trying to keep revs well above 2000 swearing at the damned traffic in my way and the STUPID DAMN CYCLIST WHO COULDN"T MOVE MORE THAN AN INCH AN HOUR WHEN I NEEDED TO TURN ACROSS HIS PATH, I've never seen somebody ride a bike SO SLOWLY!

Once I got back, I let it idle on the road a minute while I collected myself. Gave it a few squirts of the pedal and observed a nice cloud of pitch black smoke each time - so got to be running mega rich (and remember this is a petrol), when it warms up.

bh bh bh

[Cueball]

Hi. Welcome to the forums.

Cueball from Pembrokeshire

[tommy]

Check the cold start valve and make sure it isn't sticking. Also the one way valve on the crank breather.

[sleemanj]

Check the cold start valve and make sure it isn't sticking. Also the one way valve on the crank breather.

I've started a new thread since the topic has moved a bit...
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2284&p=32219#p32219