Happy New year Haydn! Nice to hear your still looking in, its quite a bit quieter these days with FB taking a lot of the traffic away full of repeat questions of course!

If the bottom hose didn't get warm then thermostat didn't open up! Not sure what temperature your working in but down here it has been sub-zero all day so it might need a lot more time than 90 minutes to get sufficiently hot to open the thermostat. Assuming your thermostat has been working correctly ...

The other thing to bear in mind is that it can be a mixture of everything that has dripped from the engine since it left the factory as it has a "foam" layer to hold drips! I have taken the undercover off mine and hosed it down with detergents in the past but finding a suitable bit of waste land to ...

You probably have the undercover on, this has an escape hole in that position so the fluid can becoming from anywhere under the engine bay but only leaks out in that position to fall on the floor! You need to sample the fluid that has appeared for colour and texture and then compare with the engine ...

You will loose quite a bit everything above the level of the thermostat basically.

Check the temperature of the two pipes that feed the front heater matrix, if they are both cool to the touch, when one should be hot/warm then it might be the thermostat, but that would normally also cause the meter to read lower than normal, not the 11 Oclock position.
Also check that the adjuster ...

Yes definitely a clearance engine, someone on the forum did check the piston head level when the heads were removed to prove it.

The hot water from the engine should always be flowing thru the heater matrix, and the amount of hot air is controlled by the flaps. Most common cause is the heater matrix being blocked as it has very fine tubes, when you flushed it did you get a good water flow in both directions. The only other ...

Indeed and lets hope many more!

Ah not quite sure what happened there try this;
http://www.g8dhe.net/bongo_images/TheDi ... ector.html
the "..." replaced the folder I had put it in?

Unless your new device can handle the Japanese version of NTSC (not American version) then it may have problems with the correct Black level as they differ also a different colour temperature so colours may be a little skewed! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC-J for details.
Can't help with the ...

Oh that's good I have a copy of the image files, but not the actual database to drive them, which overlays the the information and parts numbers on top of the basic picture.

I think in the diesel, the w/p is built in? In which case you will loose most if not all the coolant, but I've only a V6 to look at! Try a search on the forum to find out!

There are quite a few topics on the subject see this search search.php?keywords=diesel+alternator+belts

Most choose a 5W-30 based oil, the original specs are linked below for all consumables;
http://www.g8dhe.net/bongo_images/mazda ... ttings.htm