I brought a 53 reg Dispatch to repair as had head gasket gone
I spent a week pulling the engine out & tried removing the head but couldn't remove one of the head bolts so had to cut the head off in the end & replace with a new one.
Van ran lovely after work was completed, drove 110 miles home without issue. Once home, I changed the water cap as thought the old one was leaking & hey presto, suddenly had loads of problems...
The water pipe union was diagnosed with a crack & therefore as I was driving the water was escaping from the expansion bottle. Crack got worse & pipe union exploded. Now my question is, I have ordered a new pipe union which will come tomorrow but I've had some advice that the explosion of the union could only be a symptom of a further problem rather than the problem itself.... Does anyone here have any experience of this kind of thing happening & do you think that replacing the union will only be a temporary fix & it'll go again?
I'm concerned that I'm going to have to start from scratch with another engine out job!! Any advice/guidance would be brilliant please as I'm getting to the end of my tether & desperately need van for work!!
