by mazzo » Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:16 pm
Uh oh......
I've been using the car round town for about a week or more. Took it on a longish (45 mile) country drive and it overheated!
I've never seen the temp gauge move before and suddenly it was half way. It never went too much above that, maybe a couple of needle widths over half, but it was clear things weren't right. When I stopped, it chucked out a load of coolant down the overflow pipe.
I am hoping it was an airlock in the cooling system. I changed one of the jubilee clips the other day and thought I'd bled it - but perhaps I hadn't.
After filling it up, I drove it between 30 and 70 MPH and it seemed OK. Temp gauge was moving but never reached half way.
Oh, well, let's hope it makes the trip to Billing.
1971 1600 HC DeLuxe
1971 Green 2 door HC Base model
1978 Red 4 door Viva E from new
1969 HB 1159 4 door SL