Theres life in the old dog yet

See you at the weekend:D

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theres a sweepstake running at work, they have a map on the wall with the route on it - the cheeky gets have put coloured pins in where they believe I will break down

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Ha ha (not for the pump not turning up)...people don't believe Commer ownership can be reliable experience...quite rightly I say :D
 
no pump! maybe tomorrow morning? if it comes tomorrow afternoon we might not be able to go until saturday morning :C

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Have you checked the tracking number - they may have dropped it off at a neighbours by mistake:I

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it was to be delivered to work, I have ordered all my engine spares from them - never had a problem, their despatch email just said picked up by TNT weds for thurs delivery - however have just got the answer phone today, when I ordered sunday he phoned me to say he was down at the olympics until weds lunchtime so maybe traffic was bad and TNT got delayed today

at least I got on with a few other things, have fitted the manual overide for the Kenlowe fan and a temporary lash up for a cigarette lighter so we can run the sat nav.

be it friday or saturday please dont expect to see the dog in a finished condition, we are still very much work in progress but we are desperate to get there to give it a decent run after all the mechanical work

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some partial success......

carried some more investigation,

running the engine at fast idle it transpired that the radiator cap was lifting just before the temperature needle reached the red - ditching coolant down the overflow tube - in turned dropping the pressure / level in the cooling system causing it to boil.

I replaced the rad cap with a new 15 PSI rated one and ran at fast idle (with a lot of thrashing) to get the temperature into the red without the cap lifting - Hooray I thought

I then went for a drive, things seemed perfect, temp sat just over half way

then I got to the dreaded bypass, the moment I got over 40 mph the temp gauge shot into the red and the new 15psi cap lifted, luckily I had brought more water with me (it only needed 2 litres to top up)

I did however notice a small leak on the heating matrix. It could be that there is a sufficient leak here to drop the water level and system pressure to a sufficient level that the water pump becomes ineffective and the coolant boils.

So I have bypassed the heating matrix - but ran out of time to test it.

Failing that I have been reading up, as the large temp rise only occurs when the van is flat out I am wondering if I am getting exhaust gas leaking into the cooling system. Next step is to test that / get the head back off to inspect it.

Its mad that it runs fine at 35 but goes potty at 40

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.. I also bought one of those laser heat guns to check for hot spots - nothing of note, with the engine at idle warmed so the temp is at halfway the block sits at approx 75-80c the exhaust manifold at 85-90, the injectors approx 70c, thermostat housing 80c - couldnt find any local hotspots

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Lee, forgive me if I've missed it in the previous 80-odd pages but is the radiator itself in good clean condition?

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Could the engine be a bit tight after the new pistons were fitted?

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