Water, water everywhere ...

... and not a drop to drink

On a recent trip into the badlands of Londontown's east end, noticed the temp guage rising a little - nothing unusual in that really, the 110 still doesn't like traffic much.

Later noticed tell-tale steam rising - oh oh.

Opening the bonnet revealed a steam barh in a rather garish hue of green. Further examination revealed cooling system (almost) empty.

Fearing the worst I borrowed a bucket from the client and refilled the rad and header - fired up and the cause became apparent - pinpick in the top hose.

Bluetack, gaffer-tape and tie-wraps seems to have effected a reasonable temporary repair.

Now then chaps (and chapesses), pray tell if you know, is the top hose something I can get from my local orange&black motorists superstore or do I need to contact paddocks/beamends/etc.?

Thanks for reading.

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William Tasso
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Reply to
Mark Solesbury

On or around Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:18:07 +0100, "William Tasso" enlightened us thusly:

rad hoses are all funny shapes. Our favourite mail-order bloke can send you one by next-day post...

BTW - I bet your overheating is down to a crap radiator. putting a new rad in my 110 V8 solved it permanently, it never ventured above half-way on the dial afterwards.

Reply to
Austin Shackles

William Tasso uttered summat worrerz funny about:

They usually have a good selection of Ronney Flex unless you want it with different dia ends.

Then of course you can probably get it in blue , red , yellow or whatever the local jap crap bling thing sports this week.

Lee D

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Lee_D

In article , Austin Shackles writes

On the other hand mine (IIA with 2.0 - later 2.25 diesel) rarely (*) "overheated" until the sender unit got changed.

(*) Dragging a ton and a bit of yacht over Snake Pass made it a bit hot under the collar though. Most amusing, late October, cold night, heater running flat out, and the windows open so our boots didn't melt. Them in the back got none of the benefit from the heater and were starting to mutter about hypothermia.

Adrian

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Adrian Simpson

yeah - figured, was just wondering if this is something the non-specialist shops carry.

could be - favourite is a knackered viscous unit in this case. been getting 'warm' since I removed the self-tapper that had been rammed in to keep it locked by a previous bodger.

One step at a time. is not really a big issue as I rarely travel at peak traffic times - even in(to) Londontown.

new as in brand new shiny?

Reply to
William Tasso

On or around Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:00:01 +0100, "William Tasso" enlightened us thusly:

ah, well... if it wasn't showing a tendency to be hot with the fan running, then it could well be that. I was assuming that you had functional fan assistance of some kind, I admit.

well, black painted. cost about 80 quid.

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Austin Shackles

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