HAVE OVERHEATING PROBLEMS ON MY 2002 FORD TRANSIT JUMBO 2.4 DURATORQ (125PS)DONE 56,000 MILES

WAS OVERHEATING ONCE/TWICE A DAY LAST WEEK, NOW WATER SYSTEM HOSES PRESSURIZING AT IDLE SPEED; ESPECIALLY TOP HOSE, ROCK HARD; WATER BUBBLING IN WATER RESOVIOR. WATER PUMP WORKING OKAY, THERMOSTAT WAS REMOVED COMPLETELY TO TEST SYSTEM. RAN ENGINE WITH BELT OFF (THUS NO WATER PUMP RUNNING) WATER SYSTEM STILL PRESSURIZING ! DOES THIS MEAN THAT IT IS PRESSURIZING BECAUSE GASES ARE GETTING INTO SYSTEM, HENCE CRACKED HEAD THEORY ?????

Your name: G HARPER

G HARPER, January 2009

Hi G first of all don,t drive the van anymore sounds very like head gasket but unusual at 56,000. I had same problem with 01 2.4 transit last year, some of the lads were driving it on the motorway and it stopped when we got it back to yard found same problem. Head gasket was really blown hardly any compression in cylinders it was all going to exspansion bottle thus it would have blown your hand off to take the cap off. We parked ours up as it had 160,000 and really wasnt worth fixing. A couple of months later some guy came and asked to buy it so the boss sold it to him, he came back later and told me that he had to replace the whole engine as it was totally fried so dont drive yours if its overheating cause it could wreck it altogether

Kev, January 2009