Ok vid of fan finally downloaded, mrs wouldnt do it so you will see my litle hand pop in, what dya reckon mr spock?


https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sour...rxfgWRUaSA

Poor newspaper.....!!!

Think that's working.....  Pete
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Could have been worse, could have been my fingers...... Lol

I agree! That's good.

Thanks guys, its nice to have eliminated it but would have been a simple fix if it was knackered.

FYI Mine has no viscous, just twin electrics, I have the 80deg mod, temp sits at around 90deg in normal driving, I have the fans set to come on at around 100deg, takes a while sat still for it to get there and bring the fans in... In the winter I barely hear them come on...

It used to sit well over 100deg with the original stat and viscous...

Up a mountain in low box at 5mph they are on all the time....!!!!

 Pete
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Thanks pete, hardest minewill have to work are those hills just off the m5 on the way to devon with the caravan on the back. But l would rather have it a bit cooler so l have a bit more of a margin. Did you encounter any issues? The mod looks straight forward enough and access looks decent

Right finally got an update, pulled the top apart and decided to do breather pipes, oil separator and rocker covers at the same time. So fitted silicon breathers as originals had dissolved completely, also oil separator was blocked so that was cleaned out, now for the fun part, drained radiator and removed coolant cap so no vacuum lock. The coolant drained out and the bobbing cork in the indicator stayed afloat???, removed pipe from bottom of coolant bottle and, still bobbed away rammed my screwdriver up said hole and coolant started to trickle!! So l removed the tank and decided to purchase a new one. The stat was removed and as l was modding to the cooler 80 degree stat any way put the wax/heater part on the bench and set about heating it up with a blow lamp, the little pin did open slightly but even when at serious heat would not have been enough to open fully. So I have deduced l had 3 main issues, stat not opening fully, some sort of previous rad weld or equivalent gunking round the whole system and a blocked header tank. All in all very lucky l have not got some serious damage. I have given it several flushes and she seems to bleed up relatively easy, this may be because l can leave the cap off as the stat opens before boiling point now so got more chance to get the air out. Not antifreezes it yet as just gonna give it one more drain and then fill it up. But now she runs at a constant 90-92 degrees. Left it ticking over with air con on so as to give it a bit of labour for around a half hour and she never budged, as l was a bit wet my mate took it for a leisurely drive and when he got back the brakes smelt a bit warm..... but even so he said temp never budged. Gonna go and get caravan at the weekend and give it a tug but all in all damn happy. I don't think the repair gunk was recent as it has a fairly new radiator on so am satisfied with that. And mr Spock advised me not to trust the coolant bottle, due to this l kept particular attention to it and thanks to you l spotted the blockage. And for anyone attempting the stat mod it is an absolute doddle of a job, l am a paraplegic and used a standing wheelchair, the heater is just as good and the gauge sits just a small fraction than originally, engine comes off cold mode real quick and now the main fan once kicked out is not comin on whilst driving. So thanks everyone for your advice and patience.

Glad you sorted it, gauge gets to normal around 80deg and doesn't move off normal till around 120deg so it doesn't tend to move much at all...  Pete
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Thanks Pete, l don't know if you did but as it is running less heat, i.e. less pressure l fitted a new 140 cap instead of the original 200 and after an hour of ticking over and running was able to remove the cap with a slight hiss and a few seconds to de pressurise. Would not have been able to do that before.

Glad we could help!

Ian

Yh thanks ian, as sson as l realised there was an issue with the tank it got binned, so thanks for the warning. Just took so long as had to wait for stat to come from prague.