gashead1974
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Hi all,
Hopefully looking for some confirmation on my problem.
We only use our P38 for short trips ie 4-5miles a throw, a couple of days ago I noticed that no heat was coming from the vents, screen or any setting. I done a search on here and narrowed it down to the heater control motors (cant remember the correct name), so plans were made to attack them this weekend. Anyhow, yesterday for a minute I got heat - happy days and plans off until a minute later the heat vanished.
Tonight I left work and heard what sounded like a sqeaky fan belt/water pump. I continued on my journey (around 3miles away) with the sqeal getting progressively worse. I reached my destination and open the lid and can see that I'm leaking water from somewhere that is spraying of the aux belt so tunred it off. 1/2hr later, once cooled I checked the coolant level and it was empty, with the help of a nearbye farm managed to fill it up with water and popped a bucket in the boot. Just got home ok but again the noise and leak is now constant. Its pitch black out so I can see exactly where its leaking from, although its spraying off the belt so its obvioulsy at the front. Couple of other things that may be connected is that when the revs were low the steering was v heavy (only started tonight), also, I thought the ligths were dimmer (this could be my imagination), so that along with cold heaters and everything else would this point towards a waterpump failure?
Thanks in advance.
Dan
Hopefully looking for some confirmation on my problem.
We only use our P38 for short trips ie 4-5miles a throw, a couple of days ago I noticed that no heat was coming from the vents, screen or any setting. I done a search on here and narrowed it down to the heater control motors (cant remember the correct name), so plans were made to attack them this weekend. Anyhow, yesterday for a minute I got heat - happy days and plans off until a minute later the heat vanished.
Tonight I left work and heard what sounded like a sqeaky fan belt/water pump. I continued on my journey (around 3miles away) with the sqeal getting progressively worse. I reached my destination and open the lid and can see that I'm leaking water from somewhere that is spraying of the aux belt so tunred it off. 1/2hr later, once cooled I checked the coolant level and it was empty, with the help of a nearbye farm managed to fill it up with water and popped a bucket in the boot. Just got home ok but again the noise and leak is now constant. Its pitch black out so I can see exactly where its leaking from, although its spraying off the belt so its obvioulsy at the front. Couple of other things that may be connected is that when the revs were low the steering was v heavy (only started tonight), also, I thought the ligths were dimmer (this could be my imagination), so that along with cold heaters and everything else would this point towards a waterpump failure?
Thanks in advance.
Dan