Is it right to presume that the top hose to the heater matrix always comes fom the engine goes to the heater matrix and then exits, cold, to the lower radiator hose? I have an o series engine installed in a sherpa van.
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The pump drives the flow around the engine and heater circuit.– Solar MikeCommented Aug 20, 2020 at 4:01
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No, that is not a good assumption. Not that I can tell you off the top of my head even which way the coolant flows through the heater matrix, it could flow either way. It can flow all the time when the HVAC isn't even putting air through the heater core, meaning both hoses would be hot all the time. I can also be that there could be a valve in the coolant stream to the heater core where, when shot off, neither side is hot. There is nothing saying it has to be engineered so the hot fluid has to go into the top and cool out the bottom. It could flow either way ... there's nothing in physics or engineering which dictates it only flows one way.
answered Aug 19, 2020 at 23:54
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That vehicle did not have ac as standard , just a bare minimum heating for winter - summer cooling was “open the windows”... , but could have had an aftermarket roof mounted ac unit but these tended to have their own engine driven compressors and were for refrigerated delivery trucks - very very rare, think I only ever saw one like that. Commented Aug 20, 2020 at 12:09