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Oct 21, 2022 05:28PM | 6464s | Edited: Oct 22, 2022 04:17AM |
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Excuse the obvious quip here, but check that your Yellow Plastic Fan is mounted facing the correct way.
Then, consider doing the stat, hoses, and the other "While you're at its" because you don't want to take out the rad again. Consider checking the low point inside the cabin, your heater core for sludge. Depending on your car's past maintenance, you may be better off replacing the heater core as I think it might be the type with alloy matrix with plastic end tanks and thus hose connections.
Because it is an automatic, change your oil and filter. Then, you'd know where you stand in trying to protect that Auto.
Finally, determine if you'd like to add a Water Wetter or comparable product to aid in the heat transfer of your "radiator fluid".
You're establishing a baseline for your period of ownership, so it might as well be fairly comprehensive.
Stay cool, my friend! Best, MSH
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Simple way to test the T'stat: Take off the rad cap and start the cold engine with the bonnet open and let it warm up. Hold your hand on the upper rad hose and wait. You should feel the head get hotter and hotter while the hose remains cold. At the specifed temperature, the T'stat should open and you will feel warmth in the rad hose gradually heat up. Looking down the rad filler, you should also see the coolant flow by, especially if you rev the engine. If the top hose warms gradually with the head, the T'stat has failed open. If the hose dose not heat up and there's no flow through it, the T'stat has failed closed. (The drilled holes would defeat this test.)
Unless your car has a coolant catch-tank, there should be some air space in the top of the rad. If you over-fill it, the surplus will be pushed out with expansion of the fluid and when the engine cools and the fluid contracts, it will allow air back in through the venting rad cap. Old cars are not like modern ones.
When you install a T'stat, make sure you put it in the right way around. On the side with the spring, there is a capsule with special wax in it. This capsule must be on the hot or head side - down in a Mini. The wax expands and opens the valve against the resistance of the spring. If it is in backwards, the engine will overheat.
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Also, look at your hoses. A bulge will develop on a compromised system. That indicates a weaken hose. Check to see if your hose clamps are tight.
A copper radiator is more efficient in transferring heating. Looks better too. Silicon hoses do not stretch. That becomes a problem when you are putting on the bottom hose on the lower radiator outlet without removing it.
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