Mgf losing Coolant - Help needed

[Richeee]

Dont Ask if finished yet.    NO.

30 hours in but at least it does run.

Put belt covers on.   Working throgh wheel well and over the top.

Then took them off again as i had forgotten to torgue up the pulleys with my new toy. 

Put covers on again.

Put the alternator belt on and tighten up,   again through wheel well lying on gravel drive.   Then took it off again because with alternator in tightened position you cant get to bolts to fit the engine mount framework. Fit engine mount assembly through wheel well and do alternator up again. 

Fit engine bay plastic cover through wheel well. Lose bolts in gravel.   Cut some new 6mm bolts down to size.    Then find old ones.  

Generally fit rest of ancilliaries , take the front boot covers off to get to heater matrix bleed screws and fill up coolant. But obviously air lock as no coolant from rear bleed screw.   

Change oil and filter.    

Will it start. Yes.  First go no problem.    Spend an hour going round all 3 bleed screws, front rad, matrix and rear spaghetti of pipes. 

Eventually after scalding hands and many airlocks all good. 

Next job will be in a few days time will be to top up coolant and bleed again. Put interior back to gether now its all dry and take for several short runs keeping an eye on things.

Then to top it all see a coue of mg adverts for specialist who charge between 750 to 850 all in. Deffinetly should had gone to them. 

Then when fixed , put new ticket on it and up for sell.   

My inkling would be to look out for a Spit i think to drive whilst i complete my 13/60 resto. Not to grand as it would live outside under a cover but notto shabby either.

Beaulieu autojumble next couple of days with family commitments.

Any way for now,

To be continued.

    

[johny]

37 minutes ago, Richeee said:

Dont Ask if finished yet.    NO.

30 hours in but at least it does run.

Put belt covers on.   Working throgh wheel well and over the top.

Then took them off again as i had forgotten to torgue up the pulleys with my new toy. 

Put covers on again.

Put the alternator belt on and tighten up,   again through wheel well lying on gravel drive.   Then took it off again because with alternator in tightened position you cant get to bolts to fit the engine mount framework. Fit engine mount assembly through wheel well and do alternator up again. 

Fit engine bay plastic cover through wheel well. Lose bolts in gravel.   Cut some new 6mm bolts down to size.    Then find old ones.  

Generally fit rest of ancilliaries , take the front boot covers off to get to heater matrix bleed screws and fill up coolant. But obviously air lock as no coolant from rear bleed screw.   

Change oil and filter.    

Will it start. Yes.  First go no problem.    Spend an hour going round all 3 bleed screws, front rad, matrix and rear spaghetti of pipes. 

Eventually after scalding hands and many airlocks all good.  

I'll never moan about my Vitesse again!

[Richeee]

Bonfire day

Now two birds one stone...........

 

 

 

 

[Richeee]

Well.    It missed its destiny  with a bonfire.   As i left it last time it was running but i was having problems bleeding.   

After leaving it for a couple of days doing other things like Beaulieu autojumble, gardening and bonfires returned to check on the water level yesterday.  I expected it to be down, but it was empty.   Not going to panic at this stage because reading up it seems it can several goes at bleeding and topping up before it settles. Topped up ran again , thermostat open electric fan going and bled it several more times.

Did find some water in the foot well which worried me a bit.   

But actually the heater matrix is right above there and its bleed screw.    It only happens when im bleeding it. So ok.

Went back to it today and the water was down 10mm or so.   Not too bad

 Another top up and then a quick warm up to remove any more air and bleed.

Yep.   The radiator bleed screw broke. Lost several litres of coolant.

One on order from Rimmers and i can start top up and bleeding again.

Mechanically engine seems ok. No rattles or bang. 

Just got to convince myself the waters ok.

Put interior back in.  

So sort the water, fabsil the roof. Mot it and see what it will make.

To be Continued.

[Richeee]

Update guys and gals. 

The new radiator bleed plug arrived the next day.  Quess what wrong size.    It was 12mm. Supposed to be 10mm.   

So just used the rubber washer off the new one and 10 mm stainless bolt.   Ran over the next couple of days for an hour at a time on drive bleeding and panicing.

Seemed ok so interior gone back in and egine cover.

Now got new mot.   Roof treated to fabsil.

Now done over 100 road miles with no apparent loss of water . My intention is to put another couple of hundred miles on befor replacing with a spitfire.   

Must admit had a look at one. 7 hour round trip and nearly did not bother to get out of the car when i got there. Not as advertised. 

Anyway as regards the mg.   Hopefully...

Will not be continued.

 

[Colin Lindsay]

Sounds good; let's hope it continues!! When does the paranoia start to fade?

I hate it when you drive to see a car and the seller has been economical with the truth. We've all done it.