At last, heat!
Posted: 06 Dec 2010
Well, after ages and ages of moaniong about my car not getting warm enough, the temp gauge only ever showed 55ºc unless you were howling up the motorway at over 100mph, this spell of fucking shitty freezing cold weather has finally prodded me into doing something about it.
I've been gently working the four bolts which hold the thermostat cover back and fourth for a few weeks to gently free them. and this afternoon I went to the farm, and undid them completely, to find.....
some nob had put a small stat in a big cover, so it was free to float about.
It might aswell not have been there.
Also, there was a lot of corrosion inside the cover, so much in fact that I couldn't get the circlip out. Clearly this car has been run for some time with no anti-freeze in it.
So, off to the knackered engine which came out of Chris' car, to get the relatively new stat, and the cover which was quite clean inside.
while I re-assebled it all, I made sure to put copperslip on all the bolts, just in case I ever need to do this again.
And on the way home from the farm this afternoon, the temp was holding nice and steady at 80ºc at a comfortable 75mph, warm enough to wear just a t-shirt, instead of a coat....nice!!
I've been gently working the four bolts which hold the thermostat cover back and fourth for a few weeks to gently free them. and this afternoon I went to the farm, and undid them completely, to find.....
some nob had put a small stat in a big cover, so it was free to float about.
It might aswell not have been there.
Also, there was a lot of corrosion inside the cover, so much in fact that I couldn't get the circlip out. Clearly this car has been run for some time with no anti-freeze in it.
So, off to the knackered engine which came out of Chris' car, to get the relatively new stat, and the cover which was quite clean inside.
while I re-assebled it all, I made sure to put copperslip on all the bolts, just in case I ever need to do this again.
And on the way home from the farm this afternoon, the temp was holding nice and steady at 80ºc at a comfortable 75mph, warm enough to wear just a t-shirt, instead of a coat....nice!!