Practically Classics Forum

As Dad is off for a week it will be I will try an keep out of his way!
He was finishing off the gates then doing some work on one of the
trailers. So the grinder stayed in it's box in the tool shed.

It wasn't till later on in the afternoon before did a little work on the car.
As mother had returned my car battery.
(she borrowed it to power the electric fence to pen the horse in a field)
It's time to turn the engine over but not fire her up, to make sure she
hadn't seized up!



Then as the crimps had arrived, I cut the cable and one end of each of
the spark plug wires. I had found an old spark plug wire holder which
looked like it will be perfect for the job, but will need a little trim and a
hole drilling before bolting into place.

As Dad was welding his boat trailer yesterday, so nothing done till today.

With the custom radiator being without the the a/c condenser the 12"
cooling fans are way too big and the panel which had been trimmed is
now a problem that needs to be covered up!



After cutting the alloy plate a good vise and a rubber mallet to bang it
into shape.





A thick strip of alloy used as a spacer to cope with the mouldings in
the slam panel.



It is all bolted up, but the nuts, bolts and washers will be replaced with
Stainless Steel as the current ones are just so I could bolt it up and drill
all the fixing holes. (The protective film on the alloy hasn't been removed)

10" fans will be bought to replace the 12" fans that don't fit.



The brackets for fixing the oil cooler to the radiator, and the bracket for
clipping the spark plug wires were tidied up with the grinder and given a
coat of gray primer.

As I know I need two 10" fans and they might take a week to
get here depending on the seller posting them. I bought them
now off ebay for £40.50 in total including postage and tax.



http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... OC:GB:1120

I will be picking up the Stainless Steel bolts, nuts and washers
along with a new thermostat when I go food shopping later in
the week.

A rather large parcel awaited my return from food shopping. The
parcel wad a yard long a one foot square, the contents?
The two 10" radiator fans! could they have used a larger
cardboard box?

Without any brackets or fixings the two fans sit tightly between
the two tanks of the radiator.



Looks like two new sets of brackets to be made to hold them in
place, luckily I have a bit of alloy box tubing which is suitable for
the top space to make an adapter.

The bottom is a total rethink!



As I had picted up the stainless steel nut , bolts and washers. It
made sense fitting them while the weather stayed good. I have
added a strip of foam draft tape along both the top and bottom of
the radiator before refitting it.

So the air gets directed through the radiator rather than over it
and below it. The foam tape also protects the radiator from sharp
or unevenness in the slam panel.





The lower radiator hose hase been fitted, I just need the
thermostat which I forgot to get before filling the cooling
system.





The little spark plug wire bracket's paint dried so it was fitted.
I do wish I could have had enough time and strength to make
another start on the wiring.



Before I make a start on the wiring again, I will sit patiently
and straighten the damaged vaiens on the oil cooler radiator
before bolting it up to it's waiting bracket which is currently
bolted to the main radiator.

Today the cooling system again!
The modified and damaged coolant filer neck bottom and the
brand new one before I started on it.



I changed the bolt hole reinforcements, and used the
industrial dremil bit to do the modifying more professionally
and carefully. As well as changing the position of how the
thermostat is placed, I shaved a bit off the reinforcement
for the outlet spout. This was to make it better for the
accelerator cable.



The second adapter plate needed a bit more taking off on
one side. The engine manifold needed a slither taken out of
the ring where the adapter plate will bolt up. this is so there
will be no problem fitting the thermostat.



I rolled up some cello-tape and put it so no bits of metal shavings
would get into the system. I did wheel out the vacuum cleaner
and sucked out the shavings.



Between the adapter plate and the engine I used plenty of gasket
seal paste, and the same with fitting the thermostat and fitter neck.



I think that the upper radiator hose will need to be replaced soon as
it looks lik it has seen better days.



I have filled the cooling system with just plain water so if it leaks
then if the dogs try to drink it or it ends up on the plants or drive
then there is nothing to worry about.

Once filled it will be left over night or for a couple of days to see if
okay.



After most of the bent fins on the oil cooler radiator had been sorted,
it was mounted to the rear of the main radiator.

I have purchased an Android tablet Disgo 6000, but forgot to see
if it had bluetooth and wither or not it had the google apps store!
But it was in very good condition with all the bits.



I spent some time and downloaded a torrent with a load of free
apps and put them onto a memory card then into the tablet.
using a bluetooth dongle, and that software, now means I can use
the Torque 1.4.91 software that JPB recommended.

The Torque app can be found at
http://www.apktops.com/tag/torque-apk

I will try it out on mothers Volvo V70 T5 first as I still have a bit of
wiring to sort out!(Understatement of the century)

Another thing I ordered of the Bay of E rather than spend time and
money going around scrapyards trying to find one is A battery Hold
down clamp.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/320915055040? ... 1439.l2648

And at £5.80 in total it's a heck of a lot cheaper than paying for the
fuel getting around the scrapyards!

As I had pushed myself to get the cooling system's plumbing
finished, Saturday was spent recovering. Which is possibly just
as well, as the weather has been rubbish.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly news!

The good news, the water in the cooling system has remained
at the same level at which I left it. So it only looks like the
upper radiator hose will need replacing. Thank god for that I
would not have wanted to go and take things apart to find a
flipping leak in that system)

The bad and ugly news, the bluetooth obd is a clone and that the
Torque 1.4.91 software shows it as such when it was connected
to mother's Volvo V70 t5. Also it would not speak to the ECU on
the Volvo's Baud system, it also did state that it wouldn't
connect to certain ford systems. I didn't dare start the Volvo to
try and get runtime signal from it's ECU as it would pump the
remaining water out of it's cooling system(SERIOUS water leak)

So now I am wondering if it will work with the Voyager ECU & TCU!

Don't worry too much about using a cloned adaptor. Sometimes it's just a case of hacking some of the Parameter IDs to work around the conflicts thrown up by the clone. Worked for my adaptor which has been used on - among other thing - a newish Focus and succeeded in identifying its gremlins.

I don't know anything about the neons cooling systems, but do they not use an expansion tank like others?

Glad to see it's progressing
David

ERR David you need new glasses mate as the answer has been
stairing you in the face

The small pipe which comes off the filler neck, which is also the
thermostat housing. Runs around the back of the engine on the
firewall.



To the coolant reservoir which is bolted on the passenger side of
the firewall.



The Coolant filler cap is spring loaded like most modern cars which
when it gets to a certain pressure uses the reservoir.