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- 97 UK XLT, 99 Sport V8,
I drove back from Liverpool to my home in Rushden, Northants on Monday night/ Tuesday morning and noticed that the heater wasn't very hot and the windows were all misting up.
Anyway, I got up late yesterday so didn't really get a chance to check under the bonnet, I just assumed that the flap had stuck because I'd had the aircon on so the car was just blowing re-circ'd air...
Anyway, I got under the bonnet this evening and the header tank was bone dry, so I checked the oil and there was no contamination.. luckily.
Out with the housepipe and as i'm filling it up the water's going everywhere...
closer inspection reveals that the pipe that comes from across the top of the rad to the header tank has fell down on the fan belt which has eaten a big hole in it...
I cut the offending hole out and put the pipe back on.....
on the drive to work tonight, the windows were still misting up though...
does anyone have any ideas what's causing this?
could there be an airlock??
cheers
Si
Anyway, I got up late yesterday so didn't really get a chance to check under the bonnet, I just assumed that the flap had stuck because I'd had the aircon on so the car was just blowing re-circ'd air...
Anyway, I got under the bonnet this evening and the header tank was bone dry, so I checked the oil and there was no contamination.. luckily.
Out with the housepipe and as i'm filling it up the water's going everywhere...
closer inspection reveals that the pipe that comes from across the top of the rad to the header tank has fell down on the fan belt which has eaten a big hole in it...
I cut the offending hole out and put the pipe back on.....
on the drive to work tonight, the windows were still misting up though...
does anyone have any ideas what's causing this?
could there be an airlock??
cheers
Si