Advice needed please. I have read the posts on fitting an HCV and thankyou for the information! Do you need to remove the heat shield to do this? Are there any photos that would explain this as all the ones that I have found have been dead.
Advice needed re fitting an HCV please
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Its pretty easy, and dont need to remove the heat sheild. The most tricky bit is holding those spring clips.
heres my advice
- locate all four pipes & hose clips
- use good quaility pilers to compress clips, to loosen, and slide them about 75mm back along pipes
- unplug HCV
- pull off hoses, the coolant will of course leak out at this point
- check there is no plastic left in hoses
- remove old one, and fit new one
- push on hoses
- compress & move clips to correct postition
- plug in HCV
- top up coolant
heres my advice
- locate all four pipes & hose clips
- use good quaility pilers to compress clips, to loosen, and slide them about 75mm back along pipes
- unplug HCV
- pull off hoses, the coolant will of course leak out at this point
- check there is no plastic left in hoses
- remove old one, and fit new one
- push on hoses
- compress & move clips to correct postition
- plug in HCV
- top up coolant
Spike
Many thanks for your advice re fitting a new HCV, it was really helpful and my other half now
has a good idea what needs to be done, so hopefully I can get my car back on the road very soon. This is a great site and I know where to come when I need some sound advice!
:grin:
Many thanks for your advice re fitting a new HCV, it was really helpful and my other half now
has a good idea what needs to be done, so hopefully I can get my car back on the road very soon. This is a great site and I know where to come when I need some sound advice!
:grin:
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