I've had next to no heat in the cabin for a few months now so on sunday I decided to do something about it
Tried getting the pipes off the matrix and bust one of the clips so I ended up pulling the plenum / trumpets off and disconecting the bloody thing from the back of the engine block / Hbv
Tried the old method of flushing it with nice hot water and soap powder but it was that bunged up I could hardly blow threw it
so it was time for drastic measures
Off down the local plumbers merchants and retuned with 1 bottle of Fernox radiator cleaner
Sunday morning, I dragged the pipes up as high as I could, blanked the lower one off with a pair of molegrips and in the fernox went
I must admit, I thought I was peeing in the wind with this but this lunchtime, I
bodged carefully taped the top pipes open end to the aquavac's pipe and switched the thing on.
After a few seconds of the vac sqealling away, I removed the molegrips off the botton hose and with a big gulp, it sucked out the fernox and about a cup full of brown sludge
1 hour to rebuild the top of the engine and I fired it up.
Hell, its like a sauna in there now
It is without doub't the hottest heater i've ever felt on a omega
I've just text the missus to tell her i'll be picking her up from work later in my shorts and flipflops
But, as in the gonad family, nothing is perfect ............... the bloody cam covers gone on the passenger side
Oh well, thats a job for another day