No further on the engine annoyingly, nothing worth talking about anyway.
It's been a tough month for T189PND, it's been battered by the poorly maintained local road network and then thrown its toys out of the pram.
First, I had to rob the thermostat from the turbo engine to fit to mine as it was stuck open
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Next up, rear left puncture.
Annoying as it wasn't that long ago I had to replace the other side due to pothole damage.
The other side still had a good 6mm left on it and I don't like having mismatched tyres across an axle so I had to source another Ultrac Sessanta which has now been discontinued.
Remaining stock is a little more expensive than it was! Managed to find one with a manufacture date of mid 2016 so all good for now.
I have a proper spare too
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Then only a week or so later as it just never ends, disaster struck again
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So that wasn't fun.
Fortunately I was most of the way to work anyway so let it cool off a bit and limped it to work rather than leave it where it was and later fight the PCN I would have no doubt have gotten while waiting for recovery! Got a bit hot but didn't overheat.
Mr.
AA man arrived, and we did the
'we've got to try and put it on the back of the van' dance, but it just wasn't going to happen.
Front wheels on the ground meant the splitter was scraping the floor, rear wheels on the ground
(which I didn't really want them to do anyway) wasn't going to happen either
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So a proper truck was called
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And we're on the way to the driveway.
New radiator is a Japspeed item that lots of people seem to resell under various names
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And I wouldn't recommend it.
Fitment to the car is fine, but the stock fan simply doesn't fit without modification, and once the radiator pipes were on I could no longer open the top bleed screw!
Also don't recommend the Stoney radiator pipes.
Fitment isn't great, and I had to do the jubilee clips ridiculously tight to get them to seal up properly.
Should have just got new stock ones, but needed them short notice so didn't have much choice.
Lesson learnt!
There's still some drips under the car but they're coming from the undertrays near the front ARB and further back.
It seems unlikely that
the hard pipes around the fuel tank went at the same time, and when one of the Stoney radiator pipes was leaking I didn't notice at first as it was travelling along the hard line and accumulating in the frunk, and then onto the undertrays.
So now I need to remove the undertrays and check I've not been super unlucky and had one of the under body coolant lines fail as well.
There were no leaks at all prior to the radiator leak so it's unlikely.
Got to check though!
