04-04-2015, 10:39 PM
a couple of days ago, I took this on a 100 mile around trip, to see a mate of mine. What ever was going to go wrong will do, and sure enough things did. My top rad hose seal wasn't sealing at all, in fact that started to fail as I was coming back! Also I had Air in the system still, not much but enough to cause the seal to fail.
So today, I decided to have a look on what the crack is, and reason been is the top rad hose isn't in the proper angle. I took off my dads home made bracket and pushed the top hose back, to the front of the car. I tried to get it as close as I could to how the Diesel metro had it. Upset the coolant system did it not! but after a tick cover and rev, it settled down. Then I took it for a quick 8 mile trip, parked up in a car park. Popped the bonnet, to check if my repair was ok. Took the cap off and Revved the fucker into the redline, so it would push what ever air was in the system out!
After that the car seemed to settle down perfectly. Took it for another blast and came back home and the system was spot on.
I think I will have to top up the front suspension on this, as its a bit un happy, plus I can get the tracking checked and adjusted. Monday I may fit the front discs and pads, and look into fitting the rover accessory, and fit my light protectors too.
So today, I decided to have a look on what the crack is, and reason been is the top rad hose isn't in the proper angle. I took off my dads home made bracket and pushed the top hose back, to the front of the car. I tried to get it as close as I could to how the Diesel metro had it. Upset the coolant system did it not! but after a tick cover and rev, it settled down. Then I took it for a quick 8 mile trip, parked up in a car park. Popped the bonnet, to check if my repair was ok. Took the cap off and Revved the fucker into the redline, so it would push what ever air was in the system out!
After that the car seemed to settle down perfectly. Took it for another blast and came back home and the system was spot on.
I think I will have to top up the front suspension on this, as its a bit un happy, plus I can get the tracking checked and adjusted. Monday I may fit the front discs and pads, and look into fitting the rover accessory, and fit my light protectors too.