No heat in car & no fan coming on


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mk2glenn

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Well lads the EK9 was overheating on me so took the thermostat out & it went fine (bar the obvious overcooling).

Today I put a new thermostat in and now the gauge is going half way up, there is no heat in the car, the fan is not coming on, the top rad pipe is very hot & the bottom 1 is cool at best.

Any idea?:angry2:
 
Did you fit the stat with the little valve thing at the top?
Dunx
 
type-r-dunk said:
Did you fit the stat with the little valve thing at the top?
Dunx
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I put the gasket around the thermostat so that the wee cutout was around the wee gold thing, then the 2 little bumps sat into the housing so I presume it's the right way?
 
When bleading it do it with the cap on, self bleading systems need some pressure to get the trapped air out. If that fails take your car out for a spin and see if that works.

I was having the same issue but only the fan not coming cutting in or out when i changed my stat. It was like that for about a month, it never overheated and it never smelt hot or lost any coolant so I wasn't too conserned about it. But after a trip to a RR day, when my car was coming off the RR the fan finally kicked in and out as it should :D
 
How can I bleed it with the cap on?

Yea going by the gauge it's not overheating, it's sitting at exactly half way but normally the fan cuts in well before this
 
It's a self bleading system on the EK9, you just top the coolant up, put the cap back on and run the engine up until it gets up to temperature, that's why I said you may have to take it out for a spin to get the engine up to temperature.

9 times out of 10 on (not a Honda but same principle) Rovers you have to drive them to get the temperature up to open the stat.

The reason why the bottom hose is cold and have no heat is because the stat hasn't opened.
 
Ryan-EK9 said:
It's a self bleading system on the EK9, you just top the coolant up, put the cap back on and run the engine up until it gets up to temperature, that's why I said you may have to take it out for a spin to get the engine up to temperature.

9 times out of 10 on (not a Honda but same principle) Rovers you have to drive them to get the temperature up to open the stat.

The reason why the bottom hose is cold and have no heat is because the stat hasn't opened.
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Why is the temperature gauge reading half way though and no heat in the car?

Cheers for the help lads
 
When cold enough not to burn yourself. Fill rad right up, pull heater pipe off stat a very little till water seaps out. do the same with throttle body water pipe and the other heater sized pipe that come out of the side of stat housing.
Dunx
 
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