monkfish24
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As the title says, just been to pick up the P38 I spoke about before. 4.6 V8 Gems.
I paid £160 for it, it has MOT, the suspension is working perfectly, the brakes are astounding at stopping such a heavy car and the gearbox is smooth and all gears work.
It is overheating like a mother trucker though. There is loads of mayonnaise under the oil cap. I started from cold with a full coolant bottle and drove off from the seller, after about 10 miles, the heating went from hot to cold without any change in the temp setting. Then the engine went in to overheat.
I removed the coolant cap and there was a lot of pressure in the system, only place that can come from is obviously the cylinders so hopefully tomorrow, I'll start getting the engine apart and find out if it's just head gasket issues or if it's something more deeper.
Why the P38? I wanted something easy to fix. The engine still comes out the old fashioned way, the electrics are well within my abilities and parts are still readily available. It's capable, easily moddable and very comfortable on the road.
A few other things don't work, the cruise control doesn't operate, the blowers don't move from the windscreen position, the sunroof is a little leaky and the heated seats don't operate very well either. Those are all minor points at the moment compared to the engine! I'll get some photos on here tomorrow and this will probably turn in to quite a long thread.
I paid £160 for it, it has MOT, the suspension is working perfectly, the brakes are astounding at stopping such a heavy car and the gearbox is smooth and all gears work.
It is overheating like a mother trucker though. There is loads of mayonnaise under the oil cap. I started from cold with a full coolant bottle and drove off from the seller, after about 10 miles, the heating went from hot to cold without any change in the temp setting. Then the engine went in to overheat.
I removed the coolant cap and there was a lot of pressure in the system, only place that can come from is obviously the cylinders so hopefully tomorrow, I'll start getting the engine apart and find out if it's just head gasket issues or if it's something more deeper.
Why the P38? I wanted something easy to fix. The engine still comes out the old fashioned way, the electrics are well within my abilities and parts are still readily available. It's capable, easily moddable and very comfortable on the road.
A few other things don't work, the cruise control doesn't operate, the blowers don't move from the windscreen position, the sunroof is a little leaky and the heated seats don't operate very well either. Those are all minor points at the moment compared to the engine! I'll get some photos on here tomorrow and this will probably turn in to quite a long thread.
