What's Boiling Your Pi$$ Today?

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Didn't work...
That top pipe is the return pipe from the thermostat...
I couldn't flush the system with a hose pipe as I'd need an exceptionally long pipe and couldn't justify over a £100 on a garden hose..
I've now downed tools and will have to get someone to come and sort it...
Just watched a you tube video on removing radiator and its a bastard and I don't have the equipment or patience any more with this particular issue...
And now a bloody engine light as come on so fuck knows...

Have a "Pink Gin" and chill

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

Go take a drink and a rest and rethink your options and approach

Done that...went to see a friendly mechanic.. I'm back...now I've noticed few things...
Heaters are working which is a good sign..
Radiator fans are not working which is a bad sign..
Hose going into the new thermostat is hot..
Hose coming out is cold...
I'm gonna take the thermostat out on a mechanics recommendation and see what happens then...

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

Maybe beer is the answer cheers

 

[DD67]

The nearest garage might be 8 miles away.
But I see that Ann Summers offer same day local deliveries ...



I hope you washed it out before connecting it to the Jaaaaaaag

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

The nearest garage might be 8 miles away.
But I see that Ann Summers offer same day local deliveries ...

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I hope you washed it out before connecting it to the Jaaaaaaag

It's a colon clearance kit...

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

See...Beer is the answer...
Top it back up with coolant and try again

 

[chas]

Done that...went to see a friendly mechanic.. I'm back...now I've noticed few things...
Heaters are working which is a good sign..
Radiator fans are not working which is a bad sign..
Hose going into the new thermostat is hot..
Hose coming out is cold...
I'm gonna take the thermostat out on a mechanics recommendation and see what happens then...

Honestly, I'm not being a cunt or calling you one but...
is it possible to put the thermostat in upside down on those engines?

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

Honestly, I'm not being a cunt or calling you one but...
is it possible to put the thermostat in upside down on those engines?

I thought that myself..
After opening up the thermostat housing it can only fit in one way...
Now I've removed the thermostat the coolant is flowing around brilliantly and coming back up through return pipe to the reservoir tank...
Problem is the temp gauge still seems to be rising up to just over a quarter...
The radiator fans are no longer kicking in either...

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

Also I ran out of beer ☹☹☹

 

[DD67]

Also I ran out of beer ☹☹☹

As the Yanks say..."Shit just got real!"...
Get Stacy to deliver more beer. Or see if the Ann Summers lady will oblige when she brings your next toy around?

 

[smib]

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Maybe beer is the answer cheers

Is Doom bar is cheaper than antifreeze?

 

[DD67]

Is Doom bar is cheaper than antifreeze?

It's less tasty than antifreeze

 

[smib]

It's less tasty than antifreeze

It's a lovely drop of beer.... Many a night stupified on that

 

[DD67]

It's a lovely drop of beer.... Many a night stupified on that

Your tastebuds have been turned "gay" by all that rum you drink

 

[smib]

Your tastebuds have been turned "gay" by all that rum you drink

Yours must be non-existent with all that mincing "bog trotter" brew you consume?
Or is it the alcopops

 

[smib]

Your tastebuds have been turned "gay" by all that rum you drink

Reading between the lines. Are you saying Duck might be a pinko DoomBar drinking gay?

 

[DD67]

This weasley nonce needs a good kicking. Or maybe he & his leftie friends could house a few asylum seekers? ...

 

[Big Sandy]

Check the wiring on the fan motors @BAD LUCK DUCK , then check the fuse box for the fans. It could be a relay too, maybe. Also check if the blades turn.... I can't remember if they are viscous fans on that.

Did you try dropping the stat in a pan and bringing it to boil? See if it opens or not.

 

[MartytheMartian]

I know where you are coming from on the neighbours @Big Sandy Yesterday I was at the shed and writing a new map onto the Daytona plus a little tweaking of the settings which involved a spot of revving as well. As I stopped I heard someone shouting and something just told be it was directed at me and it was a neighbour across the cul-de-sac from me shouting that the noise I was making was 'scaring his wee dog' and how I was ignorant for making so much noise on several occasions over the last few weeks (while trying to fix the bike). The guy has never so much as said hello since he moved in across there about two years ago although he has been in the village for years. As a lot of his family live in the village too I decided to not rip his lungs out and tear him a new arsehole for good measure but by Christ it was a close run thing and if he hadn't kept a safe distance I doubt I'd have been able to resist landing one on him. I spoke to a guy I know in the village who is kind of at the centre of village life and he says that the guy is a wee bit unhinged and is best ignored, as he often flies off the handle about fuck all. He suggested that he 'might have not had his meds' yesterday so I guess he's got 'issues'.

The thing is, if this absolute fuckwit had come to me, whenever my working on and running the Daytona had started bothering him, I would have been happy to see what I could do to stop it bothering him but, like a lot of arseholes I think he has built up and simmered anger until the dam broke and ended up making him look like a prize tosser screaming his head off irrationally. No need for him to stand a hundred yards away screaming at the top of his lungs at three in the afternoon over a few revs of an engine.

 

[Big Sandy]

No need for him to stand a hundred yards away

I think there was... It may have been dangerous for him otherwise.

Funny isn't it? You're miles away from anywhere, on the top of a Munroe, and you meet some bobble hatted jerkwad coming the other way and it's "Hello! Nice day... Blah blah". (I'm giving it "fukkoff ya cnut") Meet the same guy behind his garden fence, and he'll start WW3 to avoid speaking. The more you fence the wildlife in, the more miserable they are....