daverclasper

Hi everyone I have a Vitesse Mk1 2litre. There is never any coolent in the top hose when I remove it from the stat housing. I have tried to make sure the system is bled by opening heater and raising the front of car and running engine with rad cap off. I have also tried filling top hose with coolent and quickly attaching to stat housing. Makes no difference. I have checked the overflow tube for leaks by sucking air out at bottle end and putting tongue over end ot tube. It holds vacuem. Does this issue matter. I assumed there should be no air in this system. If so any ideas on what might be causing it. The car runs at 1/4 hot on the gauge when cruising and will run a bit over 1/2 if idling in traffic on a hot day ( it runs badly when hot like this and is harder to start). I am aware this could be other issues. Any advice much appriciated. Cheers Dave

Hi. thanks for getting back to me. No, not fitted new kit. I will set timing to what it's supposed to be and see how it runs with the points and if ok use that as basic setting I guess. Cheers Dave

Hi everbody. First time Iv'e posted on forum. Thanks to everyone, it's great. When I bought my Vitesse Mk1 2 litre 18 months ago I checked the timing statically with a bulb. It was around 7 degrees BTDC as advised for running on modern fuels. I have just bought a powerspark electronic kit and thought I would check timing statically again and make a note in case of any problems and had to refit points. The bulb is coming on when points open at what looks around 20 degrees BTDC plug no1 on comp stroke. All I have done since first check, is re-gap points as they were qiute far open. The car starts and runs well and does'nt pink. I though,t unless I am not checking it correctly and it on normal setting, it would run a lot worse and if it has moved so far. Why? Any advice much appriciated. Cheers Dave

Hi. Thanks Pete ( I was disapointed your original post was not fed back) and Roger. I feel tips and tricks are invaluable to save time and money and very interesting in themselves. I am fairly new to old car ownership so still learning a lot but will post anything useful. Cheers Dave