Hey all, brother in laws t3 is showing the temp light flickering on his dash, asides from the obvious what else does that mean? Dropped about 6 litres of coolant out whilst replacing "elbow 2 Water pump" hose, the little sucker. Thermostat opens when in a bucket of hot water. and even before the hose bust temp gauge never read much above the cool line about 2-3mm into the white was as hot as it got even whilst towing another kombi on a car trailer.

The light flicking means low water in the coolant bottle. did you check the coolant level?

Yep
Going to bleed fully tomorow morning.
Phew is that all. Gotta get the t3 bible.

[ Edited on 14-9-2006 by Iwish4aSynchro ]

bleed thats what bneeded make sure that the big sucker is facing uphill about 15% than all the air tryes to get to the highest point tand that will be the bleeder good luck

mine would flash from time to time....mechanic said it was just a dirty fuse...gave it some WD40 and it hasn't flashed since (although i haven't really driven it that much since).

Turned out to be connections, they were very sloppy gotta modify it at some stage, i know there is water/coolant in there.
Oh bleed worked fine had to force feed the radiator through the bleeder the intake line from rad to head was full of air and each time we bled it in either direction it just lost flow, answer force feeding nose uphill and filled the line, works a charm.

well what about this the water from the header tank won't flow into the inner tank causing the low water light to come on when the level drops a few ml's any ideas this started for no reason

Hi Greedy

It could be the cap is not letting the coolant pass when the pressure inside the system drops.

Steve

well mine has started to flash again as well (although coolant is topped up). Due for a major service so will get it checked then

changed cap still doing it bloody queer

1991 transporter, 360,000 klm on the clock, bubbles in the water system and occasionally overflowes out the rear plastic bottle.. I have been told it is gas getting into the water jackets and given that the stud bolts will probably be eroded it's a big $ job.. To all those helpful peoples who can id this and give advice.

kerry

your water lose is due to headgasket leakage..at 360k's you have a better than 75% chance the studs will be fine.....from experience high miler t3's dont suffer from coroded headstuds ......have rebuilt many higher mileage units without touching a stud.....t3's love taxi philoshpy..drive them hard and they love it!!!!!! ps use higher oct fuel and headgaskets also last a lot longer

well mine should last forever