Popped down to Renishaw yesterday as they have a car show from 3.00 pm onwards in the afternoon. Very informal, just turn up and chat about cars 'til late at night
Problem is, it is now very popular and a trillion people turned up, so poor old Sparky had to sit in a traffic jam for 50 minutes, on a very hot day. He didn't like that much and ended up losing a couple of litres of water. I was data logging at the time and looked back to find the coolant temp had hit 127.2°C and air temp 80°C
I let him cool down for two hours then found some water and replaced the loss. He fired up perfectly ok, burbled away happily and was fine all the way home.
This morning however, I noticed that the expansion tank had shattered
Now he's still holding the pressure and not leaking, but I think I may need another tank
I am going to throw the cheapy 14" fan away and get a good one as well.
Richard
Problem is, it is now very popular and a trillion people turned up, so poor old Sparky had to sit in a traffic jam for 50 minutes, on a very hot day. He didn't like that much and ended up losing a couple of litres of water. I was data logging at the time and looked back to find the coolant temp had hit 127.2°C and air temp 80°C
I let him cool down for two hours then found some water and replaced the loss. He fired up perfectly ok, burbled away happily and was fine all the way home.
This morning however, I noticed that the expansion tank had shattered
Now he's still holding the pressure and not leaking, but I think I may need another tank
I am going to throw the cheapy 14" fan away and get a good one as well.
Richard