what are you doing while at home?

[Mark B]

Did a school boy error a while back, mixed yellow and red coolant and now the engine's over heating. Think the rad is full of gel, so will try and clean it out this evening, hopefully will work.

[MattH]

Did a school boy error a while back, mixed yellow and red coolant and now the engine's over heating. Think the rad is full of gel, so will try and clean it out this evening, hopefully will work.

That doesn't sound good.

[Mark B]

Yep. Didn't work so need to get it looked at. No Brighton run for me .

[kma176]

Yep. Didn't work so need to get it looked at. No Brighton run for me .

Forte Chemicals do an excellent cooling system flush additive

[Mark B]

Forte Chemicals do an excellent cooling system flush additive

Thanks for that. I'll give that a go.

https://www.forteuk.co.uk/product/bio-d ... tem-flush/

[kma176]

Forte Chemicals do an excellent cooling system flush additive

Thanks for that. I'll give that a go.

https://www.forteuk.co.uk/product/bio-d ... tem-flush/

We've had a lot of good results with this when you oil contamination from head gasket failure

[Mark B]

Watched Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry today. Loads of Mopar and that Charger looks ace.

[Steve]

Great film, one of my favourites. I seem to have been spending a lot of time recently getting wound up by time wasters in the property market! Not my favourite lockdown pastime but offset by watching the whole boxset of 'The Fast Show'...again. Anyone looking for a flat to buy in Birmingham??

[Mark B]

Picked my car up today. Turns out there was a vacuum leak from the carb. One of the ports should have been blocked off under the carb. It’s was causing pinking, over heating and fuel vapour escaping. Drives like a different car now, loads of power and goes like stink.

Very happy .

[Steve]

Great result Mark, pleased car is going well.

Picked up a little trick that can help these issues. If you spray carb cleaner around the base of the carb with the engine running, if the engine note/ rpm picks up as you spray and dies off when you stop spraying, it can indicate a vacuum leak around the carb/ intake manifold. Sorry if you already know. Just a handy trick I picked up during one of my many frustrating google searches

[Mark B]

Thanks for the information Steve. Useful to know.

[MattH]

So Mark, was the rad mixing not an issue then?

[Mark B]

The coolant was ok in the end. Sorting the vacuum leak brought the engine temperature down and sorted the other problems too. No strong smell of fuel when stationary now and no pinking under acceleration. I thought there was a hissing noise when there was a vacuum leak but not in this instance.

[Mark B]

Couple of jars down the local to celebrate being 48 today.
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[mygasser]

been sat at my new computer desk too long and bought an early mk2 fiesta ghia on ebay that's local.