That's what popped on mine on the way to the 2016 nationals. Bit stressed when that happened!mickthefitter wrote:Miserable little......hoseclip
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That's what popped on mine on the way to the 2016 nationals. Bit stressed when that happened!mickthefitter wrote:Miserable little......hoseclip
Oddly... mine seems to get very warm very quickly! I run an 82 degree. I've been thinking of investing in a kenlowe type fan. Waiting in traffic and exiting showgrounds tends to send my needle up into the red. It runs great on the open road however.mickthefitter wrote:Yes I was there. I think I can remember. Didn't you give me a rear light lens you didn't want, out of your boot? Those old heater hoses have been on my mind for a while, though looking at the flexibility of the rubber as they came off (in bits as I cut them) they could have gone on for another 40 years!
I changed my top and bottom hoses, for new old stock Unipart items off eBay, pretty quickly when I got the car, during the many phases of trying to discover why it got hot, and didn't want to shift! But with the lack of accessibility, plus fresh coolant before the new heater hoses arrived, after I'd had the rad rebuilt, changing the back hoses had to wait. This time though, as well as it being time for new 2 year antifreeze, I wanted to change the thermostat for an 88 degree one I got from Mini Spares, since, as I've documented before, the new rad means the temperature needle takes ages to leave the blue zone, during which time the car stutters and hesitates for longer than it should, then even when 'up to temperature' the needle barely moves a hair's breadth outside the blue zone unless you are doing something like queuing to park at Ferry Meadows in hot sunshine. I'm hoping that running cool hasn't damaged the engine, but the last time I had it running last year, it sounded a bit noisy to me...
You're right.. they do take some loving.mickthefitter wrote:Oh it was the radiator in mine. Apart from the blocked tailpipe that came to light last year, when I gave up trying to make it run right and handed the car over to my local garage expert. But I had the rad rebuilt with a close-to Sherpa van specification, which is what had been recommended to me. How close to Sherpa spec I'm not sure. I told my chosen repairer what I'd been told to get, and he said "I'll tell you what we can do..." and showed me a sample matrix. So me, I'm thinking, yeah, okay, I need to do something, go ahead. So now, it doesn't warm up fast enough.
What is it when cars get old? I was talking to a DeLorean owner at Ilkeston last year, and his car always ran a bit cooler than it ought to, and he'd been through everything and couldn't find a reason for it. When I had 'old' cars when they were just six or seven years old, they always ran fine, apart from little things like misfiring when they needed new points, or having to have their tappets adjusted. No overheating, no petrol smells, as I see it they were just as much a switch-on-and-use-it item as the modern cars are today, except you had to be mechanically sympathetic and take care warming them up on the choke, or use WD40 in damp weather, unlike now when you just let the computer sort all that out and stamp on the throttle to go. But it seems to me no matter how many new parts get fitted, 60s and 70s cars now always need coaxing, and pampering to get them to run. I'm sure many people will say I'm wrong and their classic car is as reliable today as any modern car, but personally, that's not what I find.