first job was to find the cause of losing coolant over a period of time - just when i thought my running temp had been sorted once and for all, i was sat in traffic about 5 mins into my journey home on thursday, and the a/market temp needle just shot up from 70C to about 110!! :shock: needless to say i got my priorities right and in this order: i) shat, ii) found an escape route out of the traffic and into fosse retail park. gladly i noticed the needle drop back to normal temp as i moved, so after kerb crawling for a moment, i took my chances and carried on with the drive back home. no real probs as even when sat at lights it only crept up to about half way (90ish C). the following morning, i filled it with about 3 litres of coolant (all i had) and it still would have taken another 2! :slap: the journey to and from work were at normal temps, so today i bought some more coolant, got the bonnet up, popped in another 2 litres and after a short amount of time and the pitter-patter sound of dripping, found the cause in the picture below:
so after removing the top hose, overflow pipe and rad cowl, i sorted out the clip (which was there, but hadn't been tightened up and had slid across the metal part of the pipe towards the centre of the engine) and replaced it all. not taken her out yet, but i did let her run for ten mins, throttling lightly now and again. no leaks so far so fingers crossed! DAMN those pipes are a b!tch to fit :slap:
first job was to find the cause of losing coolant over a period of time - just when i thought my running temp had been sorted once and for all, i was sat in traffic about 5 mins into my journey home on thursday, and the a/market temp needle just shot up from 70C to about 110!! :shock: needless to say i got my priorities right and in this order: i) shat, ii) found an escape route out of the traffic and into fosse retail park. gladly i noticed the needle drop back to normal temp as i moved, so after kerb crawling for a moment, i took my chances and carried on with the drive back home. no real probs as even when sat at lights it only crept up to about half way (90ish C). the following morning, i filled it with about 3 litres of coolant (all i had) and it still would have taken another 2! :slap: the journey to and from work were at normal temps, so today i bought some more coolant, got the bonnet up, popped in another 2 litres and after a short amount of time and the pitter-patter sound of dripping, found the cause in the picture below:
so after removing the top hose, overflow pipe and rad cowl, i sorted out the clip (which was there, but hadn't been tightened up and had slid across the metal part of the pipe towards the centre of the engine) and replaced it all. not taken her out yet, but i did let her run for ten mins, throttling lightly now and again. no leaks so far so fingers crossed! DAMN those pipes are a b!tch to fit :slap: