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Disco 1 heater core!

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 10:47 pm
by up2nogood
Can't believe it.

Soaking wet passenger floor, pulled up the carpet and noticed water slowly flowing down over the trans tunnel to the passenger floor. Coming from the bloody heater.

Pulled the hoses off and it looks like the feed tubes in the engine bay through the firewall are plastic. If they're plastic then (it would seem logical to assume) the heater core might be as well.

How the hell would plastic fail?????

Anyone else experienced this little pearler?

heater

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:12 pm
by justinC
Heater job in Disco 1 easy, don't panic!

Give us a call and I'll talk you through it.

JC

Re: heater

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:13 am
by Rovernaut
justinC wrote:Heater job in Disco 1 easy, don't panic!

Give us a call and I'll talk you through it.

JC

Out of interest, would do a post on repair?

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:52 pm
by PeterO
Plastic tanks aluminium core
Buy a copper one or use a modified Commodore one I did
Peter

heater repairs

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:16 pm
by justinC
Certainly will, between working like a dog and sleeping like a baby, I'll give it my best shot.

I'll post it up soon,,


BTW, Anyone having problems getting to Rovertrax web pages lately?
I get an Apache web design page with files listed and no access to them.



JC

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:24 pm
by up2nogood
Post it up JC, you bloody ripper!

I'll have to get a new one before I go pulling her to bits.

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:30 pm
by up2nogood
Justin! Help!

Just kidding, PM me with contact details if you're OK to offer advice! :D

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:58 am
by red90
Was it water or coolant?? You say water. If so, it is probably condensations from the air con. Make sure the drain hose is clear and feeding through the bulkhead,

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:16 pm
by up2nogood
Nah, definitely coolant. Have disconnected heater until I get the chance to have a look at what I have to pull out.

Unless someone can save me pulling out crap I don't need to!

Cheers

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:26 pm
by up2nogood
Well, I pulled the console out. It does look like the dash has gotta cokme out as well? :roll:

Has anyone done this job and can offer some pointers?

Thanks!

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:47 pm
by ptschram
It requires removal of almost the entire front interior. Not a job for the faint of heart.