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talkingwhippet
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Posted: 05 Jan 10 at 20:22 |
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Hi,
been trying to sort out an overheating problem on my AAZ engined van.
Water doesn't seem to be getting through radiator. Inlet pipe from engine is cold at rad end, although return pipe is warmish, but guessing that is just hot water from engine. Rad is warm at bottom, but cold in top half. I have recently fitted a new water pump and reversed flushed whole system so I know there are no blockages or leaks in pipes. Not managed to get system to cool properly since then - although bled system as advised on forums. Plenty of hot water coming out of bleed screw on rad when van on ramps, but rad not getting hot when screw closed up again.
Is there a problem with bleeding system - or is rad blocked somehow? Looks to be in good condition and relatively new as no damage to core that's obvious. Any advice or ideas?
Happy New Year to all BTW!!
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Tee3
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try bleeding it without the ramps: http://www.brick-yard.co.uk/forum/bleeding-the-cooling-system_topic29710.html |
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^WHS^
I had this alot
keep doing it
it will come around
could also be worth checking the stat
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talkingwhippet
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Excellent - that's really helpful guys!
Didn't find this before when searching.
Cheers.
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Talkingwhippet
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colinthefox
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You say you replaced the water pump, and you have had the problem ever since. Which water pump did you fit? The JX kind (clockwise rotation), or the AAZ kind (shoot me down if I'm wrong but I think it's anticlockwise). Wrong rotation pump will produce a small output, but not enough to cool the engine. Do you have the AAZ housing or the JX setup with vee belts? Vee belts is clockwise, Flat belt (depending on your setup), should be anticlockwise I think. |
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jokeruk
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If this was the case, you wouldn't be able to use the JX water pump on the AAZ would you (i know i used it on the swap that chucklebus and I have just done on mine)
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icky
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Also, depending on how the AAZ was installed, some numpty might have put the belt on the wrong way round the water pump belt like in this picture... (the red is where the belt SHOULD go...
However - also consider if you've not got enough Antifreeze in, and the radiator part system is partially freezing up with the air passing through it as you drive along through the really cold air, thus leaving the engine 'cooking' by itself. The solution is to warm the cooling system through on
Idle before leaving.
The final suggestion I have is airlocks.
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colinthefox
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The point is that the AAZ pump housing is designed for an anticlockwise pump, so you have to fit an AAZ pump which has an anticlock impeller, not a JX pump which has a clockwise impeller. Then when you have fitted a matching pump and housing the pump has to be driven in the right direction by the belt. All sorts of combinations appear possible, but only one (with everything matched) will produce full output to cool the engine properly. These other combinations would probably be OK till you want full power from the engine for some serious hill climbing.
Icky is spot on with his belt routing photo. It's no good saying you've got a JX pump, and using the wrong belt routeing to run it clockwise, cos it's still in the wrong housing and won't work properly.
Colin Edited by colinthefox - 11 Jan 10 at 10:41 |
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Globbits
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Sorry for the hijack guys, but I have a horrible suspicion that I'm the numpty that Icky mentioned!
Are you saying: 1) There's a difference between the diesel water pumps? (I thought VW TD's all used the same pump?) 2) That I've got my pump pulley spinning the wrong way if I've got an AAZ with the belt sitting on the outside of the pulley?! (I couldn't get it to fit going the other way round - the belt was slightly too short) I take it this is me being dumb and I really ought to go buy a slightly longer belt and a new water pump?! Richard |
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colinthefox
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Yes indeed.
Water pumps from original fitment engines on the T3 with the double vee belt setup, quite obviously are designed rotate clockwise, viewed from the pulley side.
Water pumps from AAZ, and AEF engines certainly, and I assume all the others with the flat ribbed belts are designed to run anticlockwise.
Here's a photo of the insides of an AEF (Polo) water pump.
The housing on the left and pump unit on the right are designed for water flow as shown by the arrows. That's anticlockwise, innit.
If you are using the AAZ pump housing (anticlockwise) you must fit the AAZ type pump (anticlockwise), and the pulley must run anticlockwise, and the only way to do that is to run it off the BACK of the belt. That's why the pulley is smooth, not ribbed.
If you are using the Original fitment T3 water pump housing (clockwise) you must have an original T3 (JX or CS etc) clockwise pump. and the pulley must run clockwise too, meaning you must use the original T3 double vee belt setup.
You must not mix clockwise and anticlockwise pumps and housings, cos fairly obviously they weren't designed to work together. If you look at the photo, you can see the castings are matched when you bolt them up.
If you rotate your pump the wrong way, or put the wrong pump in your housing, the pump will still provide a little output because it's partially a centrifugal pump which just flings water to the outside. I would guess about enough to trickle around the bypass loop, but not enough to cool the engine under full load round the radiator circuit. But the pump is what I call a mixed flow design, which also swirls water round and round, (you can just see the impeller blades in the photo) so the outlet port must face in the correct direction, or the water has to stop and go backwards to get out of the outlet, if you see what I mean.
Hope this clarifies.
Colin
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It does, but doesn't explain why my van's not overheating
My pump's squeaking anyway, so think it's time for a new pump and new (slightly longer) belt to make sure all's well! Thanks for the explanation! Richard |
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Myrtle the wonderbus: Out with the AAZ, in with the SVX!
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OK - now I'm totally confused.
I got a new water-pump from Simon Baxter which is complete incl. housing and on web-site is advertised as fitting all diesel engines incl. AAZ. I checked with Simon by phone and he confirmed that these pumps rotate clockwise, despite the fact that the pulley is smooth. I have retained the AAZ alternator with flat, ribbed belt.
Are you saying that I should have got an entirely different water pump applicable to AAZ only so I can run it anti-clockwise??? Does running a clockwise pump with ribbed belt really make that much difference to its efficiency (i.e. belt ribs driving pulley on RH side)???
Incidentally, I have now bled the system properly and all seems to be working fine - but confused again now about direction of pump.
Cheers.
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colinthefox
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The pumps Simon sells are definitely clockwise pumps, of the JX, CS etc type judging by the photos on his website. If you fit the complete pump and housing they should fit all 1.6 and 1.9, just as long as they rotate clockwise. How you get them to rotate clockwise is up to you. I suppose there's nothing to stop you running it off the ribbed side of the belt with a smooth pulley, but that's not how flat belts are designed to work, because there's not enough "wrap" round the pulley for the belt, and it won't provide a good drive, and it would need to be very tight to work. There's very little contact area for the ribs against the pulley, and I have seen other posts complaining of squealing belts and ribs breaking up. It's bad engineering basically. I'll admit that the double vee belt setup isn't exactly stunning, but at least it's working as designed. It often sqeals too if not perfectly adjusted.
You said your pump was squeaking. Was it the pump itself or the belt squealing?
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This IS getting confusing!
The pumps fitted with the flat belt arrangement in the donor car would rotate anticlockwise. When putting the engine in the van you can either use the pump/alternator/pulley setup which was fitted in the donor car (anticlockwise pump), or you can change it for the van type pump (clockwise), which is what I assume most people do. In my previous photos there is absolutely no doubt that the pump which was fitted in the donor Polo was anticlockwise, (see for yourself in the photo!) and the Haynes manual belt routing diagram for the Polo is quite specific on that. If I choose to use that complete setup in my van, it still has to run the same way. Flat belt, smooth pulley, run off back of belt. Thats the way flat belts are designed to work. When you change the pump it would have to be for a similar kind (polo, golf, etc)
If, however, I choose to use the T3 type pump and alternator setup on my replacement engine, the pump has to run clockwise. I am trying (probably very badly!) to point out that using the flat belt, ribbed side to a smooth pulley with no "wrap" is bad engineering, and in that case the vee belts should be used.
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max and caddy
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ok so your using a AEF polo engine? that might have a anti clockwise pump, i will check, what has baffled me is that in a golf the the pump is a van pump! its the same and that pic with the belt shown in red is a golf engine setup with the spring on the alt,
Those pumps in the pic dont even look like vw pumps to me!
i dont care anymore! i have 3 AAZ engines, 2 with poly v belts and one with jx v belts and they all go clockwise!
why does the water pump pulley need groves in it if it works?? the G60 engines had grooved pulleys but had to be adjustable to align them but thay were hi performance petrol engines ( same pump as an AAZ tho!)
anyway...the flat belt is why the crank pulleys fail so use v belts!
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Sorry to jump in on this guys but I've got a clockwise flat belt system and I'm overheating so want to rule out having a mis-match of housing/pump and my pump turning the wrong way - This is the only informative discussion I can find about this issue. Is there any way to find out the pump's direction without taking it apart? cheers dan |
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