Well ol' Vanessa, my 83 300CD, pulled a good one on me yesterday.
I just got done overhauling the glow plugs and wiring harness which was a serious bitch considering the wagon is taking up all the room in the shop and it's about -20C here....(not to mention the obvious fact that those glowplugs are in the most patience-trying places ever!).
The good news after all that is that it started first snap like a dream in that temperature, once they finally were in.
I drove'r home that night and but she felt weird...I was scared I'd overfilled her with oil (since it was dark when I check the stick...and "was positive" it was down a half a litre)
Yesterday morning I took her out to the store and back, and as I rolled in my temp gauge all of a sudden was through the roof and steam started blowing out off'r everywhere! Oh, what great news in the frosty morn!
After a closer look, it seemed that when I was fixing up the glowplug wiring harness, I used shrinking tube to seal up the harness (amazingly great stuff ..and way more flexible then the hard stock coating, especially in subzero)...
...to shrink it I heated it and it seems that while was doing this the hot wire at somepoint burnt a perfect little hole in my coolant hose.
Well she let me know it was there yesterday!
Replaced the hose (NS300TD grabbed one from the shop....another benefit of parts cars!) in the freezing cold, topped her up with anitfreeze and she held temp just like her old self.
BUT!!!!!
I lost my heat! Of all things....seemed to me that the coolant may have shorted my heater...blower worked ...but very very very cold air.
I checked the fuses but by that time my hands were colder than polar bear balls. Came back inside and sulked and poured over heating diagrams.
Hopped in it an hour ago due to a desperate shortage of tea and lifted the hood for one more quick effort.
Pulled any contacts I could and sprayed them off...gave the fuses a quick good roll back and forth....swore a lot....checked the coolant levels one last time and jumped back in'r.
And...
God bless her soul. It was a warm tea run!
Just when you're about to snap with the buggers, they still always got yo' back.
-HIMMM
I just got done overhauling the glow plugs and wiring harness which was a serious bitch considering the wagon is taking up all the room in the shop and it's about -20C here....(not to mention the obvious fact that those glowplugs are in the most patience-trying places ever!).
The good news after all that is that it started first snap like a dream in that temperature, once they finally were in.
I drove'r home that night and but she felt weird...I was scared I'd overfilled her with oil (since it was dark when I check the stick...and "was positive" it was down a half a litre)
Yesterday morning I took her out to the store and back, and as I rolled in my temp gauge all of a sudden was through the roof and steam started blowing out off'r everywhere! Oh, what great news in the frosty morn!
After a closer look, it seemed that when I was fixing up the glowplug wiring harness, I used shrinking tube to seal up the harness (amazingly great stuff ..and way more flexible then the hard stock coating, especially in subzero)...
...to shrink it I heated it and it seems that while was doing this the hot wire at somepoint burnt a perfect little hole in my coolant hose.
Well she let me know it was there yesterday!
Replaced the hose (NS300TD grabbed one from the shop....another benefit of parts cars!) in the freezing cold, topped her up with anitfreeze and she held temp just like her old self.
BUT!!!!!
I lost my heat! Of all things....seemed to me that the coolant may have shorted my heater...blower worked ...but very very very cold air.
I checked the fuses but by that time my hands were colder than polar bear balls. Came back inside and sulked and poured over heating diagrams.
Hopped in it an hour ago due to a desperate shortage of tea and lifted the hood for one more quick effort.
Pulled any contacts I could and sprayed them off...gave the fuses a quick good roll back and forth....swore a lot....checked the coolant levels one last time and jumped back in'r.
And...
God bless her soul. It was a warm tea run!
Just when you're about to snap with the buggers, they still always got yo' back.
-HIMMM