What a day

spent 12hrs bonding with Elaine.. And she has warn me out..

started a 7am on the radiator I can see why the car was always hot, there was hardly anything left of the rad to cool it down, then had to find 3 bolts for the fan because i had to cut the old ones off with the dremal...with the rad in place i move onto the coolant pipes.. OMG that plate under the car was a nightmare, I broke 2 10mm sockets ended up go to halfords and buying a 1/2 10mm deep socket good chunky socket and that worked, got the new SS pipes on after cutting myself pulling rubber hose of end so time for a rest and a cig so i sat there and cleaned all the rusty bolts from the plate using my di set by the time i did that and whacked on some copper grease i could wind all the bolts in fully by hand.. a job well done and well worth the time, so time to remove the engine cover ready to bleed the system, yet again massive thanks to those that contribute there time and effort in doing the how toos.. spot on... with the system all bled i decided while I had the front bumper off I would swap the nice brightwork from the freestyle, mission done and onto wiring up the Drl's properly.. in between doing all this today i was also helping my neighbour work on his '68' beetle

what was left of rad



nice shiny new rad installed




all that glitters is not gold



horrible rusty bolt threads fill with grot



same bolt after cleaning it using the di



coolant pipes installed

Good work, fella!
Frustrating but satisfying eh?

have to be honest its the first time i have every done anything like this.. never changed a rad before or coolant pipes or drained and refilled a system before and i only took ot on because of the fantastic how toos on here

All the more impressive: well done!

great job craig well done

That feeling of I did that is priceless

Nicely done and thanks for showing us. :broon:

Years of life left in that radiator! :bust: :coat:

David Aiketgate wrote: Years of life left in that radiator! :bust: :coat:

Aye lad, so long as the headers and cores were sound, we used to repack the finning. Tedious though!

Craig I think you can be my inspiration :yesnod:

Well done you :broon:

cheers SS but everybody on here has inspired me in far to many ways lol still got a little more to do tomorrow,

heres the DRL's and switch

Wow! You definitly got your money's worth out of that rad :beer: