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Dec 11th, 2019, 08:29 | #1 |
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Miss my 940
So my poor 940 has been laid up two weeks now while I change jobs and get in to a dirty diseasel Skoda Fabia VRS... I miss the 940 soooo much already it's untrue! So glad I didn't sell it.
Problems with the Fabia so far after two weeks: Battery died, I turned the car off in a traffic jam and then it wouldn't start so I was 2 hours late to work! Thankfully two guys stopped and helped push it in to a layby. Thermostat has died meaning it struggles to get up to temperature drastically reducing my MPG. Changed the cambelt, waterpump etc and found whoever did it last didn't tighten the engine mount properly!!! One boost hose has decided to permanently be fixed to the EGR valve meaning getting the top cambelt cover on/off was a squeeze. |
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Dec 11th, 2019, 09:54 | #2 | |
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If for some odd reason there is only one fan and that covers the whole of the radiator, cover the bottom half. You can see the point i'm getting at, restricting air flow through the rad to improve warm up but leaving a bit for natural and/or fan-assisted cooling. Should make life warmer for you and improve your mpg until you can renew the 'stat. The beauty of using cardboard is firstly it's free, secondly if for some reason it does start to overheat (unlikely at the moment!), you can stop and whip the cardboard out in a matter of seconds. It's a trick i've used for 30+ years in the winter, especially in cars with a weak/lazy 'stat and sometimes even on cars with good 'stats as well, particularly on shorter journeys. Never had an overheat or any other problems from doing this except during very wet times when the cardboard has got soggy and fallen apart!
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Dec 11th, 2019, 10:30 | #3 |
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Second that, 'L.S.'; sound advice. I've used cardboard in the past myself but it does go soggy very quickly! Better, I found was a piece of hardboard cut to size. Better still, a custom radiator muff/blind with adjustable flaps, no less!
I remember the likes of Halfords selling these in the '60s and also inherited one on a '57 Wolseley 1500 I once owned. (I've even removed the fan completely on a thermo-syphon Ford in the depths of winter with no ill-effects.) Today, radiators are much smaller and cars so much more finely tuned that one would need to keep a very close eye indeed on the temperature gauge if contemplating such action. Regards, John.
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The top, expensive radiator blinds were in fact small Venetian blinds so could be left on all year round and the amount of blanking varied with a knob on the dashboard to alter the angle of the blind "blades" for full blanking to no blanking. Radiators are much smaller etc as you rightly point out but as Lukes Skoda is a diseasel, it will still have a fairly large cooling system in comparison to a petrol counterpart. About 30 years ago i had a diseasel Astra van (company van) and in winter i used to slide cardboard in front of the rad, no problems ever and it was always warm and toasty inside. It was only about 2 years old at the time and had a head rebuild including new injectors, gaskets etc including a new 'stat just before i took it over so warmed up fairly quickly - in winter though not so good! Hence the cardboard!
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I've got some corrugated/fluted plastic which is totally water proof. Let me know if you want some. Kev |
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Dec 11th, 2019, 21:57 | #6 |
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Thanks for the advice gents, I may well take you up on that offer Kev. I will have a measure up and see how much room I have to play with as with all modern cars it's very tight in the engine bay. BTW there is an actual Bentley T2 at work a drop head Corniche and a 1934 Wraith at the moment.
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As for the 1934 Wraith, you'll be lucky if that has points and condensor instead of a magneto! Sure the 1927 Ghost i worked on was points and condensor though.
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