Thread: my disco died

Originally Posted by dullbird

My disco hasn't died YET! but the same thing has just happened to my car..no idication of over heating...Ian left the car on tick over briefly came back water ****ing out everywhere. split expansion as well.

Sorry to hear that dullbird like i said to disco mitch i know the feeling when it happens at the worse times. luckily its nothing major and i'm guessing we all be looking into these engine saver kits very soon.

just spoke to a mate who is a mechanic and he rekons that if it wont kick over its more likely to be rings he said a head gasket shouldent stop it kicking over

Unless 1 (or more) pots are full of coolant

Originally Posted by mike 90 RR

Better it happened now, than ON THE BEACH .... I guess

How did you go with that Auto biso?? ... that thread went sorta quiet

it still seems to be revving high to me, at 110 it sits on 3k trying to get some answers but im just running backwards and falling over......oh na thats just what it feels like

Originally Posted by Lucus

Unless 1 (or more) pots are full of coolant

makes sense im just hoping its something simple but with my luck ppffttt the whole thing will prob be kaput

well my drama so far has been two split expansion tanks......grrrrrr


we think the over heating due to it being after the car had had a run may be due to the air-conditioning fans failing....

we luckily got the expansion tank from the 90 and put that on no more leaks...however we got over flow in the expansion tank...and we think that may of been due to a possible airlock as we have parked it up and opened all the bleed screws and topped up etc taken it for another run....and touch wood it seems ok.

Soon as the garage is open its going in...to have the head pressure tested!!! wanna catch that bugger before a drama if its that...until then (18th Jan) we are really hoping we can limp it around.

sorry for the Hi jack Disco Mitch I just feel your pain at this precise moment

these things are quite such a drama when you can nip it down the garage are they

Originally Posted by disco_mitch

just spoke to a mate who is a mechanic and he rekons that if it wont kick over its more likely to be rings he said a head gasket shouldent stop it kicking over

Originally Posted by Lucus

Unless 1 (or more) pots are full of coolant

Can ANYONE confirm if Disco Mitch should ask his mate to Drop the coolant
Then put a socket onto the crank and turn the motor in reverse to clear any water out thru the inlet valve .... Then use the starter motor to clear the pots of water, before the bores start to rust up??

Diesels aren't my thing ... and I don't know if reversing the motor will hurt it .... but any suspicion of water in the pots should be cleared out

Mike

May be I don´t have the complete information about disco_mitch's Disco, but usually the complete die and no start problem in TDI's is originated in the solenoid valvle connector. It usually rusts and suddently brings this kind of trouble... almost in south America
If an engine is running in the freeway and suddently stops, may be the coolant can make some gurgle-blurb...
My best wishes to all you for christmas (we are still waiting for twelve o' clock here).

Regards-

In my opinion is impossible to get water in the pots for a running TDI engine. The inlet air and the cilynder pressure is higher than the water pressure, then usually the gasket failure allows air to go to the coolant circuit, and not in a reverse way.

Regards