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imy t25 had a 1.6 diesel in and it did this i did eberything you have then i had a 1.9td in which i have now, anyway it still does it the light is faulty and the gauge a little ive just this minute got back from abersoch and it was fine there but did it on the way home? so? i check everything all the time so i no its ok but hey its a vw ! oil leakage and random buttons and gauge's are all part of a diesel (although mine is moreless touch wood ok)

When you say brown, do you mean more like a sloppy, vindaloo-aftermath orangey brown????
And aren't you normally followed by a haze of smoke every where you go??
Think we'll be checking the pipes kidder.
8.30 at ralphs in the morro for the freeze, we'll pick you up on the way.

aye fatboy aye still goes better than yours at the mo though!!!

hi simon
na if youve seen my van there thats a mates house, i live up by the harriers on the popllars

anyone off to dub freeze tomoz?

mocki wrote:

the searing performance of the 1.6TD is just too much

ha, ha, good point tho, and i have another....are the hoses to the rad on the correct way round at the engine bay?

My old 1.6 t25 had the hot pipe from the head coolent pipe to hose connected to the bottom of the rad and cold to the top of the rad.Is this correct? I never had any problems with overheating had it for ten years.

Aye at the mo,but its dropping less oil than yours also!!
Its the poplars you live at you pillock, and who said me dad was a mate of yours, he wouldn't charge as much if he was a mate (or a relation).

that could be the one aye, an i have to say your dads a mate cuz it doubles the total

My Eurocarparts catalogue lists a different rad for 81-82 diesel than all other models----

ive just checked on GSF and thet list the same rad :-
17310 RADIATOR T25 1.6 Turbo diesel 8/84 > 11/90 96.00 Add
17310 RADIATOR T25 2.1 8/85 > 11/90 96.00 Add
17310 RADIATOR T25 1.6 Diesel 8/82 > 7/87 96.00 Add
17310 RADIATOR T25 1.7 Diesel 10/86 > 11/90 96.00 Add

the rad i had was for a 1.6 turbo diesel as the old one was replaced when i did the engine swap for a brand new 1.6 turbo diesel,

im going to check the rad hoses tonight its the fast chancce ive had to check it ill let you all know how i get on

looks like the pipes were the wrong way round!!!!!
Changing them over tomorrow night, and replacing both sender switches in rad.We will then be bleeding it, with bouts of lifting the front/back etc etc.
Who would have thunk it eh???

It's a diesel, it don't need lifting to bleed.

Just fill as much as possible and then gently drive about 1-2miles and then bleed it in a layby - works for me every time.

I had this on a 1.6TD engine in a early van not so long ago.
Loads of problems, coolant leaks, if coolant can get out air can get in!
Thermostat wasn't opening properly.
Broken bleed nipple on rad meant it had to come off and get drilled out.
Fan wiring was all c0cked up and on all sorts of bodgey wires and switches.
Jacking the van up is a load of cack, all you have to do to bleed it is rev it.
I've never had to jack a van up to bleed it.

Dodgey thermostat would be first port of call, then check fan wiring and operation.
When it overheats is the radiator warm? all the way up?

I would have thought Thermostat - it happened to mine but mine was obvious when I looked at it - but this guy changed his water pump so I presumed he might have looked at his thermostat

This is what I found when I checked mine - lovely gasket blue stuff, yumm yumm