Zorro587
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Hi all,
after stripping the heads, having them skimmed and all the machine is running again, but I'm still losing a bit of water and it looks like its coming from the overflow pipe by the expansion tank cap.
I've just been out and had her idling over. Squeezing the top hose to burp the system et al. Temperature got up and sat nicely at 12 o'clock.
But having a scrawm underneath I noticed the short bottom hose to the thermostat is cool, not even remotely warm. The larger hose above the thermostat is warm. The top hose was warm and getting warmer.
I've got the old thermostat still (honestly can't remember why I swapped it anyway) so I can swap that tomorrow night. The question is: is the warm upper/cool lower on the thermostat indicating that the ' stat is knackered, or that the water pump (swapped about 12 months ago) isn't playing its part, or both.
I also get a nice flow of coolant from the small hose atop the rad back into the expansion tank.
after stripping the heads, having them skimmed and all the machine is running again, but I'm still losing a bit of water and it looks like its coming from the overflow pipe by the expansion tank cap.
I've just been out and had her idling over. Squeezing the top hose to burp the system et al. Temperature got up and sat nicely at 12 o'clock.
But having a scrawm underneath I noticed the short bottom hose to the thermostat is cool, not even remotely warm. The larger hose above the thermostat is warm. The top hose was warm and getting warmer.
I've got the old thermostat still (honestly can't remember why I swapped it anyway) so I can swap that tomorrow night. The question is: is the warm upper/cool lower on the thermostat indicating that the ' stat is knackered, or that the water pump (swapped about 12 months ago) isn't playing its part, or both.
I also get a nice flow of coolant from the small hose atop the rad back into the expansion tank.
You must be mixing in very bad company.
