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- Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:26 pm
- Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
- Topic: Struggling Starter Motor
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17426
Re: Struggling Starter Motor
If there is such a thing as an 'afterlife' you really don't want to come back as a starter motor, it's a hard life. Does the engine start/stop and run quietly once the starter motor has got it going ? Next , difficult to check but the real heavy current switch is in that mechanism at the front of t...
- Wed Sep 04, 2019 10:22 am
- Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
- Topic: Struggling Starter Motor
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17426
Re: Struggling Starter Motor
Sorry - its a 24V GT
- Wed Sep 04, 2019 10:21 am
- Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
- Topic: Struggling Starter Motor
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17426
Struggling Starter Motor
Hi All, Just after some thoughts - My starter motor is straining to turn the engine over. At first I though it was the battery dying and stupidly went and bought a new one without checking charge voltages etc. If i hit the side of the motor with a heavy wrench etc, it will loosen and start up, albei...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:50 am
- Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
- Topic: Need a coolant cap
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17234
Re: Need a coolant cap
I cant seem to get rid of this car! Tuesday was my 3rd nail biting ride home from Cheshire, waiting for something to go wrong, watching temp gauges etc. I had made up my mind to sell, missing the days of my C180 or my wife's Saab - get in and drive without fear of incident. As soon as I get home and...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:46 am
- Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
- Topic: Need a coolant cap
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17234
Re: Need a coolant cap
So far, I've assumed that dipstick is for some purpose - always kept the water level at least half way up the dipstick. An overflow container ? Well, yes, but a little more sophisticated than that. Look closely at that dipstick in the overflow container and you will see a 'ladder of slots'. Ideally,...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:44 am
- Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
- Topic: Need a coolant cap
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17234
Re: Need a coolant cap
Currently considering this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282083640616 - before I go ordering from the US. I just paid a load of import taxes on some vintage computer parts from Jameco - our HMC wanted taxes for some 40 year old RAM ICs! Both caps seem to have the spring so I assume a previous owner ga...
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 3:54 pm
- Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
- Topic: Need a coolant cap
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17234
Re: Need a coolant cap
'it is simply an overflow tank'
- didn't know that, thankyou - how come it has a dipstick in the overflow tank?
- didn't know that, thankyou - how come it has a dipstick in the overflow tank?
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:57 pm
- Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
- Topic: Need a coolant cap
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17234
Need a coolant cap
Can someone point me in the direction of were to buy a new coolant cap for my 24V? Its the one to the lower right of the engine bay - that overflows into the reserve reservoir. I cant see anything convincing on eBay - the filler cap to the upper left of the engine is different to the cap to the lowe...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:39 am
- Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
- Topic: Found my Weird Flappy Noise
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6316
Found my Weird Flappy Noise
In a previous post I was enquiring as to the likely source of what I called a 'flappy noise' https://www.ukpoc.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=598&p=3584&hilit=floppy+noise#p3562 I have located the noise to around the timing belt area - found a youtube vid that is exactly like it - sounds less flap...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 6:37 pm
- Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
- Topic: Weird Flappy Noise
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14259
Re: Weird Flappy Noise
Had it on my old 2.5 when i put the new engine in one bolt loose,gave a sound similar to yours flappy noise on gasket vibrating till warm, Ahah! perhaps this is the answer - it does seem to get better as the engine warms. Trouble is my journey to work is so short, The engine is warm as I'm turning ...