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MG MGF Technical - Surrey lab report

Whilst working on the F ...as you do when the family turns up at Easter and bores you to tears... joined by son in the same state of mind.

I wanted to finish the radiator swap, and bleed in the coolant system....and tinker about nder the car as is our want.

So in goes the rad...fine apart from havng to get some screws to hold the fan to the rad, then the hoses, and then the trickey job of the shut panel, all alligned up so that the bonnet closes and then can be released again !!!

then the task of bleeding the coolant system!
so what do we do...refer to Dr Bob who puts me onto Dave Livingstone's webpage on bleeding the bleeder.

So it's 2Nm to undo the rad top plastic nut and 500Nm to undo the 8mm matrix bleed screw, which involves taking off a black plastic cover and then... you have to take the hood up and get to the engine through the access panel for the last bleed screw, phew

It's not the same as a Spitfire is it?
No sitting on the wheel with a mug of tea, 2 minutes later the rad is in, throw some coolant at it and bingo job done! Noooo it's an F so everything has to be complex! There really should have been an easier way to get to the engine than this Heath Robinson contraption! My X1/9 had its own little bonnet which was pretty cool, and with the K series YOU REALLY DO need to be able to get to it. The sound deadening "underlay" is definitely looking a bit ragged!

Anyhow fill the reservoir with new coolant, non OAT for those of us with early vintage F's and then bleed the ones at the front...fine, and then the one in the engine compartment...hmmm no water comes out ...reservoir full... checks the rail. It's at a high point on the rail...hmmm sqeeze rubber pipes, a bit squirts out but that's it!

Surrey labs prescribed solution: 25ml syringe full of coolant squired into the bleed screw hole until full, then replace screw!

then run engine untill hot and and the fan goes on and stop and bleed all three again. you will be amazed how much comes out!

so...

sit on floor mug of tea
2 hrs later
job done Bingo!!!!


Neil

>> There really should have been an easier way to get to the engine than this Heath Robinson contraption! <<

Working on it... (shhhh, don't tell anyone!) ;-)

SF
Scarlet Fever

The job's a good 'un then Neil? :o)
Rob Bell

This thread was discussed between 13/04/2004 and 14/04/2004

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