Any ethylene glycol coolant will do. Doesn't have to be expensive OAT stuff, any bog standard glycol coolant is fine. The design of the engine is from the 1950's when coolant was just coolant!
My manifolds smoked like crazy the first time, but...
A lesson in over tightening. Now I have one less bolt holding down the drivers side rocker cover.
Rest is reassembled, with only two bolts left over, not as bad as I was expecting!
Turned over and started fairly easily, but I didn't run it for...
Take a look around the vacuum pump at the top of the engine, the seal can leak from there, also the belt tensioner as there is a seal behind that and around the rocker cover as well👍
fbh wouldnt turn on with the remote today (battery is fine)
car also decided it didnt need glow plugs either and started up straight away!! dash said 2c
its obviusly decied its summer and i should stop being a mard.. dont i know its april!?
That reminds me, we were going to an off-road weekend and when passing through a village there was this guy stood just over the parking space line and into incoming traffic while looking at his phone, well, I couldn't help myself... Beeeeep, the...
Today i stripped the front end near side ,in preparation for new ball joints ,after 25 years not one bolt had a decent head on it but got it in the end just needed a bigger hammer :rolleyes:....
That's it just change parts and ignore advise given on how to find the problem. "It's probably this and probably that" is an expensive route to take but hey. It's your cash dude. 👌
I have been in France for 25 years, the one eyed Scottish idiot fecked my pension so I couldn't afford to retire in the UK. It's great for the retired here, not least because there is no road tax and overall taxation is lower. Not so good if...