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[heeman10]

I was sitting around bored, and my keys were twitching away, so I went for a drive. It was only 6 miles there (roundabout), 6 miles back, took the camera in case anything fun happened. Just as I was driving up the ramps to put it back in the shed I heard an odd sound, then as I nudged the front wheels up over the top lip of the ramps, I saw the steam. Thankfully I take it easy (not over 2,000rpm, hardly any throttle) on the 1.5 miles road back to my house and everything cools down a lot in that time.

Opening the bonnet showed an actuator bracket-shaped hole in some radiator tubes. It was pitch black, so hard to see just how bad it was, though my main concern is how on earth it happened. The engine felt/looked quite solid still, but I need to look at it in proper light. I'm meant to be going to Shrewsbury for a BBQ/party this weekend, and supposed to be going to Ford tomorrow for parts! Metro's not MOT'd....arsewipes

Video can be found here: http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=33PK ... GKQ16B6YCD
A few random pics because just before I left I thought it was looking like such a cool little pocket rocket toy!

[j7aoc]

the plactic cap end went on mine rad 2 week ago went to get it fixed and the man had to make a new side end up out of copper cost me £60

[heeman10]

Mm I'm not sure who to get to fix it. If Graham (GRS) is free to do a quick job, I'll send it to him I think. Can't afford to wait the amount of time required to get a job done by Radtec, I just hope Graham doesn't mind working on other peoples' rads I'd expect it to be about 50 quid to fix, but I'm not sure really....

[FRS_Steve]

Oh no, gutted mate hope it's not too bad and doesn't cost too much to sort out. Gearbox mount hasn't let go has it?

Could drop parts round for you after work if that would be any use?

[heeman10]

Steve - That would be an enormous help! Would you do that? It's in completely the wrong direction for you! Out to Tebay then 6 miles along the road towards Kirkby. Well if you do still think you could, drop me a PM and I'll give you directions. Could trundle out to the road end to meet you in the Metro so you don't zoom past. That would be a big help though

Like I say, the engine SEEMED stable, and the top engine mount seem to be fine, but obviously I couldn't see the gearbox mounts. If it's those, Deflex are going to get an earfull, they've been nothing but trouble It's the only thing that could've caused it really, but I'm interested to see just how they/it failed

[FRS_Steve]

Yeah can do that it's no problem, PM me with directions (do have a rough idea from when we went to the RS day at lightwater valley) but just to make sure I don't go the wrong way

[heeman10]

Thanks a bunch Steve, you have a PM

[Captain Tightpants]

What a pain in the ass. At least you noticed it mate, could have been much worse.

If you don't get any luck with it, I could weld it for ya, would require sending it though!

It is ally is it not?

Steve

[heeman10]

I couldn't not notice it...as you will see on the video! (Still uploading) Yeah it's all aluminium, I very much doubt if anyone near to me can fix an ally one. I've emailed Graham at GRS, will speak to him tomorrow. Could you really fix it Steve? Not 100% sure what you'd do, but I'm thinking it needs new tubes and they'll need welding in at the ends Or can you replace a small section of tube or what? I really really really want it working again by this weekend...poo never happens when I've got nothing to do!

[Captain Tightpants]

Take some photographs mate, and E-Mail them to me.

Depending on where it is, I don't feel confident enough to do any of the viens, but the end caps are easy man!

But hey, if I can't fix it, GRS is 25 minutes down the road!

Steve

[heeman10]

It's right in the middle in front of the turbo, not a nice and easy end tank sadly! Graham's just emailed back and said he'll see what's what when he has pictures. Will get up in good time tomorrow and strip it all off again and see just how bad the damage is...and what caused it!! Will send you some pics when I send them to Graham, didn't realise he was so close!

Video of tonight's action now at the top of the thread. It's only 3 minutes or so long, and seems a bit juddery towards the end, but you get the picture

[Captain Tightpants]

76mb!!

Holy crap man! Unsure if my comprinter has that much space on the old diskdrivus,

Steve

[heeman10]

Crank the old girl up! I tried making a DivX movie and it came out at 280Mb Had to go to a heavily compressed MPEG again, so the video/audio aren't up to much, but again, you can see what's going on. It all looks so slow in the video :lol:

[JamieFRST]

76mb!!

Holy crap man! Unsure if my comprinter has that much space on the old diskdrivus,

Steve

I cann'y do it captain...she hasn't got the power..


Downloading now......bloody RST's always something

[Captain Tightpants]

Yeah I'm the same mate with my movie making my divvyx is just not up to the same standards as my extra compressioned mempegs. I tend to use a mixture of the pair. I find that usually sorts things out a treat. This method has the benefit of only using a few megawhatsits on the hardmcgigger, which is also very nice.

Bring back VHS and BBC micro's, I could operate both of those faultlessly!

Steve

[heeman10]

Mm...I've got to be happy with the mileage it's done, but this has happened at an inconvenient time. I'm gagging to see what the hell's gone wrong All I was doing was driving up a ramp, and the trail of water starts halfway up the short ramps up into the garage! Bizarre...daylight will tell all. Hope the vid works ok this time.

[heeman10]

DivyX lol Very appropriate! I've just played the version of the video I have and it's jumping around all over the place at the end! Not to worry...not a particularly important video anyway. I was filming wasps and dragonflies today :lol:

[Captain Tightpants]

Pah, bugger my damn computer!!

Damn video won't fricking play!!

I'm going to bed now, to dream about a world where stress doesn't exist!!!

Damn thing..



Speak later bud.

Steve

[JamieFRST]

Plays fine for me......do you get sound but no video?

[heeman10]

Ah poo, nevermind...probably just yousendit.com buggering up another file. I'll do you a big compilation of all my fun and games. Maybe even some vids of the car! Night matey.

[heeman10]

Have you got sound and video Jamie? It's just an MPEG, should be fine See what I mean about it all looking slow

[Captain Tightpants]

Just won't play anything.

Maybe its finger trouble?

Steve

[heeman10]

If you Right Click and go down to Properties does it say it's an MPEG or mpg file? If so, it should open in Windows Media Player with no problems

[JamieFRST]

Plays fine for me, sound and video, but ive problay got every codec there is installed

It does look a bit on the slow side, guess its not from the box covering the clocks

[Captain Tightpants]

Its a:

'Wimamp media file'

Steve

[heeman10]

Winamp media file? Right click on the file, go to Open With... and select Windows Media Player Or Real Player if you have it

[heeman10]

It does look a bit on the slow side, guess its not from the box covering the clocks

Indeed! Glad I learnt how to do the box trick!

[Captain Tightpants]

When I do that I get:

'Windows media player has encountered an error'



La de dah dah..

Steve

[heeman10]

Ah that's just gay, plain and simple. I'll try to remember to get some CD's next time I have a car that works and burn off a Zetec Bumper Movie! Night Mr Steve.

[JamieFRST]

Could try installing a codec pack?

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_L ... c_Pack.htm


Or if you haven't already got it grab winamp.

http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/cli ... -7plus.exe


Could just be that it didnt download correctly

[Smo]

Ah, what a pain James

Nice vid though (ignoring how it ends - although a good choice of music for it!)

[AndyBlackFRST]

Sounds like a biatch Heeman... These things always happen at an inconvenient time too..

Had the same thing happen to mine just after spending £230 on a new ford Rad.... gutting. Mine ended up being the mounts snapped

[Stoned]

Mm I'm not sure who to get to fix it. If Graham (GRS) is free to do a quick job, I'll send it to him I think. Can't afford to wait the amount of time required to get a job done by Radtec, I just hope Graham doesn't mind working on other peoples' rads I'd expect it to be about 50 quid to fix, but I'm not sure really....

Graham fixed my rad for next to nothing not once but twice!

[TomRS1800]

ahh James sounds very poo man hope you get the sucka fixed!

Ive got some contacts down here if you'd fancy sending over some pics and Im sure the very nice man could take a look. They deal with rads a lot inluding alloy ones! Ive even enquired when I ahd the Pulsar and an allow one cam in @ just £56!

Hope all gets fixed soon for ya fella

Tom

[StreetDragster]

Ah poo sticks James

No trying to scare you but when my turbo actuator bracket went through the radiator core, Graham couldn't repair it and it required a new core

Thanks

Matt