Thread: Td5 Thermostat connections

Hi, I just took a few pics of an aquaintance's car the other day, who had his harmonic balancer fly to pieces, taking out his thermo fan and shroud.

The hose arrangement looks the same as your pic and this one still has the original type clamps.





Erich

Thanks Erich.
I think that one looks like the pic I posted from RAVE and is the opposite to mine.

Here's a close-up of yours.

Awabit6,yours is definitely wrong ,as you guessed.
Interesting as one branch goes to the outlet hot hose from the engine,water inlet to t/stat as the other goes to the waterpump inlet.
The water from the outlet hose of the engine bypasses the radiator,probably to help speed up warmup.

Originally Posted by scarry

Awabit6,yours is definitely wrong ,as you guessed.

Thanks. This might be the reason that I am in the middle of a head gasket repair - a simple error by the previous owner ...


Can anyone else confirm with pics?

Originally Posted by awabbit6

Thanks. This might be the reason that I am in the middle of a head gasket repair - a simple error by the previous owner ...


Can anyone else confirm with pics?

Sorry no pics but mine is reverse to yours too.
Looks the same as Bundalene's.
Mine has "Pump" on the branched peice.

After several double checks,yours is also opposite to mine.
Its a hell of a job to fit correctly,cant imagine it was easier that way as the steel pipes are different diameter.
Andrew

Originally Posted by awabbit6

Are the two hoses on the right in the pictures below connected back to front?


Thanks

You are correct, as mentioned previously, the hoses are swapped. What made you look for a problem - overheating?

This would be an extremely difficult one to fault find as you would assume this was correct! There are a hundred other things on a TD5 which one would look at first.

Erich

Originally Posted by awabbit6

Thanks. This might be the reason that I am in the middle of a head gasket repair - a simple error by the previous owner ...


Can anyone else confirm with pics?

I have got the workshop manual that shows the full cooling systm with all the flow arrows etc.I can't scan it,but if you PM me a fax number i could copy it & fax it over to you.

cheers