How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Xantia. - I just needed to hit it harder.

[rantingYoof]

XUD transplant into the Civic.

[Supernaut]

XUD transplant into the Civic.

Civic is based on Rover 400. Rover 400 came with the L-series turbo diesel. Close enough.

[Mally]

I don't know what kind of hammer you have but it needs to be a big one.

 

 

 

http://www.dudeiwantthat.com/outdoors/tools/bash-unbreakable-sledge-hammers.asp

[Supernaut]

FIXED.

 

Thank you Tayne for holding the socket and extension bar, allowing me to get a good swing with the mallet. Once it stopped bouncing, it only took a couple of good sharp hits to get the core plug in.

 

 

 

Foamy. I put a dishwasher tablet in because the old coolant that came out was MANKY. Also, the air burping up through is causing extra foam! Expansion tank is that one waaaay over to the left. The box next to it is the ECU. Yay Citroen!

[SiC]

So what size did you bash into it in the end?

[Guest Hooli]

That's right, we fixed a problem by hammering a smaller socket!

 

Dus

Nut

Cumpote

[rantingYoof]

This thread has recently read like an I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue sketch.

[The Moog]

 

 

That's right, we fixed a problem by hammering a smaller socket!

Roll end credits.....Autoshite is finished...

[Lacquer Peel]

Hammer a smaller forum over it, equilibrium once more.

[hairnet]

W reg xantia parked in layby at bala lake today

 

Test drive fun was it?

[Ghosty]

Civic is based on Rover 400. Rover 400 came with the L-series turbo diesel. Close enough.

 

Not close enough. You could get R8s with XUDs.

[Lacquer Peel]

L-series > XUD

[Supernaut]

I drained the water and dishwasher tablet earlier, and while it was draining I took a seat. Forgot how comfortable and spacious it is in the back...

 

 

 

The stuff that came out today was slightly lighter brown than the stuff that came out earlier in the week. I've got proper antifreeze in there now and will probably leave it. Meh!

 

All systems are A-OK, and the temperature is steady. It's also no longer making a weird mist from the top of the radiator like it was on the test drive the other day. I have cleaned up the engine bay with de-greaser since that test drive though, and I reckon the weird mist was the remnants of the old coolant that got sprayed everywhere burning off.