overheating problem
30 September 2011, 09:00 PM
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overheating problem
Guys come home tonite and when stopped at the island when my tempreture needle went to max and i pulled over straight away yet after a couple of miss took rad cap and there was water in no explosion of steam or anything and the car seems to be running normal apart from the temp keeps going up any ideas 
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hope that helps
01 October 2011, 07:51 PM
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Sound like water a leak mate if theres no water theres a leak somewhere check thermostat and water pipes 1st does the fans come in ? top the water up run the car up to temp dont drive it what ever you do check for leaks where u from mate ?
01 October 2011, 08:08 PM
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nice one dude all is good i hope brought some hks rad caps and from what weve found today they are crap and have aloud the system to leak filled the water back up today ran it to temp for hf hour no probs drove it 10 mile no probs sniff tested didnt show anything and have now replaced the original caps so fingers crossed its sorted im from kineton down by startford so any probs il be sending it api's way come monday thanks mate for the advice was well strest to say the least
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You are not wrong there. I had a guy reverse into my front end resulting in a new rad etc. I overheated very slightly once because of an air lock and have been paranoid about it ever since. I even have coolant temp showing on my PSI3 monitor, never had any problems whatsoever!
02 October 2011, 06:13 AM
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ohhhhhhh yes indeed my uncles garge used to keep spare gasket for me as i had so many fitted to my little white and gold beast great fun though specially from such a tiny motor lol
werent so much fun when i hit the kerb going down dudly hill and put it into the wall 
werent so much fun when i hit the kerb going down dudly hill and put it into the wall
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