J Los heaters are freezin! As most of you know she's a Series 3 109 2.6.
I know 1979 LR s are not that warm, but this is mad; it's warmer outside! Has anyone else had a similar problem. Is it likely to be air in the heater system or the thermostat. The temp gauge rarely gets out of the cold section?
Fayester.
By the way she had a second hand heating system put in, so doubt it's that!!
F
Yo Sis.... I may be over tomorrow, expecting a delivery, if I get a delivery early I will take a peek at it... Hoping to pick up little mans Rolling chassis for his first project. May as well get it sorted while it's parked up...
hows the foot?
:-)
Lee D
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It's going black and it hurts - 4 weeks to go!
Started J Lo on Wed - welled up with tears as cannot drive!!
I can make it to the pub now tho, although takes about ten times as long!
Luxembourg at Easter will make up for all this - does anyone know of any good loan rates to fund petrol on the Easter excursion across Europe in J Lo!
Fxx
If the temperature gauge stays on cold, then the first thing to check is the thermostat. Could also be an airlock in the heater plumbing or it could be bad adjustment of the controls or damage to some of the ducting. JD
You can have a couple of gallons out of Skippy for £6 per gallon if you want!
On or around Fri, 9 Jan 2004 01:55:17 -0000, "Fayester" enlightened us thusly:
the thermostat sounds possible in that case. cheap enough to change (unless there's something very odd about the 2.6) and it'll either solve it or not,
there're a couple of other things, apart form airlocks in the heater (loosen
1 hose with the engine running, see that water comes out).Try reversing the pipes on the heater, so the water flows the other way, and/or disconnect both pipes and apply mains-pressure water hose to one to flush the heater out.
oh and check that the heater motor is blowing the right way... I've heard of one that was blowing air the wrong way...
Well I've swapped the thermostat today... not alot of difference. It's blowing tepid air but not what you could call warm and give the tardis like space it needs to heat it's not really doing much.
Both hoses on the heater are fine (Hot) so I will try the flush next time I'm over.
Did notice that water was spewing into the overflow bottle so either the rad caps cream crackered or the heads blowing...but then I'd expect the tempreture guage to be reading well hot very quickly which it doesn't so fingers crossed it's just the rad cap.
I did get a replacement cap but the one supplied is wrong... does any one know the correct part number for a v reg sIII 2.6 Rad cap and is it the same as the 2 1/4 Rad cap I've been sold???
Lee D
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Heaters what heaters? my 1975 series 3 doesn't warm up either, I think the fan is underpowered and the whole setup badly designed and ineffective, an afterthought.
Anyone know if the 90/110 units are much better / fit?
I'm sure one could be made to fit but would the effort be worth it. I need to know too as Percy is well overdue for a heater.
Lee D
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Lee D
On or around Sat, 10 Jan 2004 20:19:44 -0000, "Lee_D" enlightened us thusly:
not noticeably. TBF, you do get a certain amount of heat from it...
someone used to have instructions for fitting 2 matrices to the S3 heaterbox.
But in fact, the heater box looks similar on the S3 to the 110 one.
what I don't know if the new plastic 90/110 heater box conceals a better or bigger matrix. If so, it'd be worth it.
The other thing to do is flush the matrix seriously, using a decent mains-pressure water hose. This makes a big difference if the problem is no heat.
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