22-03-2014, 09:13 PM
This is long winded but please have patience
What a pig of a day, did a coolant flush few weeks ago then the heater matrix starts leaking so today went to change it. Wish I bloody hadn't.
Started stripping out last night so today all I had to do was the actual dash removal and matrix change, I didn't take the guide for gospel it had left out a few screws and bolts and low and behold...... Snapped a whole side off the matrix housing. Got a soldering iron and melted it all back together, then while putting pressure on the pipes to reconnect them it gave and split wide open again while in situ so like hell was I taking it out again that rubber is a total bitch to get through the bulkhead so it's bodged with superglue and tape for the moment. Oh and I snapped that green cable on heater controls so anyone know the part number?
Start putting the dash together and reconnecting things get most of it in ready to start it and bleed it. Bloody thing won't start, showing live even without keys in and turning but not firing. Lad who was helping had found two plugs that mated but I was adamant they weren't meant to but he did anyway so after lots of digging and swearing disconnect them and finally it fires like it should. Only now got no indicators, no hazards, no blower control and I don't know about the temperature control by this time it's already been dark two hours so I give up. Any pointers for tomorrow?
Obviously will check fuses first but after that?
And when I was stripping out I didn't disconnect anything from the heater control panel as I left it in the dash, are there any plugs that may have disconnected, the cables came off and have been reconnected but what have I missed?
What a pig of a day, did a coolant flush few weeks ago then the heater matrix starts leaking so today went to change it. Wish I bloody hadn't.
Started stripping out last night so today all I had to do was the actual dash removal and matrix change, I didn't take the guide for gospel it had left out a few screws and bolts and low and behold...... Snapped a whole side off the matrix housing. Got a soldering iron and melted it all back together, then while putting pressure on the pipes to reconnect them it gave and split wide open again while in situ so like hell was I taking it out again that rubber is a total bitch to get through the bulkhead so it's bodged with superglue and tape for the moment. Oh and I snapped that green cable on heater controls so anyone know the part number?
Start putting the dash together and reconnecting things get most of it in ready to start it and bleed it. Bloody thing won't start, showing live even without keys in and turning but not firing. Lad who was helping had found two plugs that mated but I was adamant they weren't meant to but he did anyway so after lots of digging and swearing disconnect them and finally it fires like it should. Only now got no indicators, no hazards, no blower control and I don't know about the temperature control by this time it's already been dark two hours so I give up. Any pointers for tomorrow?
Obviously will check fuses first but after that?
And when I was stripping out I didn't disconnect anything from the heater control panel as I left it in the dash, are there any plugs that may have disconnected, the cables came off and have been reconnected but what have I missed?