Rear Heating Pipes

[Nathan18]

Hi Guys,

One of the metal pipes to my heater is blocked, good and proper, seems an easy fix, just run new rubber hose, but before i do that anyone got any tricks for unbloking them.

thanks

Nath

[Nostromo]

Wouldnt like to say but my entire heater matrix was blocked up until today. See my post. ups and downs. It might put you off bothering. I'll just stay cold next time.

[stormforce]

you'll need a long length of thick wire to push down the pipe to help clear the blockage

[Albannach]

Inner brake cable from a push bike is ideal. Rough ends and very flexible. Stick it in a very low speed drill and feed it in.

[BigBobE]

Inner brake cable from a push bike is ideal. Rough ends and very flexible. Stick it in a very low speed drill and feed it in.

forward or reverse on drill, reverse me thinks cause you dont want it to unravel in the pipes or is that the idea!!!

[Albannach]

forward or reverse on drill, reverse me thinks cause you dont want it to unravel in the pipes or is that the idea!!!

Would depend which way the cable is wound? The idea isn't to unravel it.

[BigBobE]

"generally" clockwise will or forward on drill will unwind.....

[Albannach]

"generally" clockwise will or forward on drill will unwind.....

Remember the flaw in the statement 'All generalisations are false'.

[BigBobE]

Remember the flaw in the statement 'All generalisations are false'.

87% of statistics are made up as well....

[Nathan18]

cheers for the much needed quotes and it's 94% that are incorrect, and I'll try the wire thing

[Nathan18]

How much will the rear heating not work effect the over all cooling system?

[stormforce]

If the rear pipes wont unblock then under the bonnet where the heater pipes are on the o/side you will see the 2 rubber pipes that go off of the front ones to the rear heater.Just take off the 2 small pipes and bridge the pipes for the front heater and it will all be ok