Transit getting hot.

[agg221]

Looks like the problem has been diagnosed here but just to add, you don't always get mayonnaise from a failing head gasket or cracked head. The pressure in a diesel engine is so high that the water doesn't immediately run through. We had it on my wife's car (unknowingly) and did about an extra 20k miles before it went, and still managed to start and drive it to the repair place.

 

The symptom is that it starts to overhead when idling, getting progressively worse, then eventually runs hot on high speed motorway runs. The final one was the run back from the Lake District to Essex, after a week trekking it up and down mountains including Hardknott Pass!

 

Alec

[Burgess]

£90 for a new one if you'd prefer

 

RADIATOR FOR FORD TRANSIT MK6 2000-2006 WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONING YC15-8005-HA | eBay

 

Assuming thats for a 2 litre not a 2.4 litre (if that even matters)

[eggsarascal]

Update.

 

The rad was partially blocked. I got that cleared and it seemed fine...... Then it started overheating again.

 

The thing is the engine isn't hot when the needle on the temperature guage shoots over into the red and the engine cuts out.

 

Could this be the CHT sensor playing up?

[Ian Leach]

This happened on my vw, it was the water pump, the fins had broken. So got the cam belt done too, brought the cheaper pump as it was metal fins instead of the more expensive one which was plastic.

[openspaceman]

Update.

 

The rad was partially blocked. I got that cleared and it seemed fine...... Then it started overheating again.

 

The thing is the engine isn't hot when the needle on the temperature guage shoots over into the red and the engine cuts out.

 

Could this be the CHT sensor playing up?

 

Eggs did you sort this out?

[eggsarascal]

Eggs did you sort this out?

 

Yeah. It was the cylinder head temperature sensor.