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Air lock !!!!!

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Mud-muncher1:
the easy way to see if its working is to take it out and test it in a bowl of hot water, but it sounds like you've got the mother of all air locks

loony landy:
either that or the head gasket change was more serious and possible cracked the head ??

Gonna take out the thermastat and try the old one whicj tbh i did not know if it was knackered in the first place lol

Mud-muncher1:
When you changed the head gasket, did you have the head skimmed and crack tested?

loony landy:
no mate, we inspected it but the reason we did the change was whoever did the head gasket before forgot to tighten up seveal of the head bolts

Mud-muncher1:
 Quote,Well mine has been done took me about 6 hrs in total but 2 hrs was waiting for a gasket to arrive  Rolling eyes Rolling eyes

Followed les guide and it was very simple and even a person with limited knowledge of the lady could do it.

Seems it has had a gasket before as the one i took off was nearly new but who ever did it never tightened the 8 headbolts in the mddle as these were just nipped up !!  It has water on top of pistons 3 and 4 and you could see where is was leaking out !!!!

But now its all back on and seems to be working well, it get to temp ok and the heaters work better too.

Will check the head bolts after 200 miles just to be on the safe side  Everybody dance now]


Just checked your other post and it sounds theres a good chance the head had warped, If your not too far away i could pop up and give you a hand if you want and have a spare 300 tdi head thats ok


Jav

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