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Today i decidede to go out and find 'Milners Off Road' in Matlock as its only 30 miles dwn the road an i need some tyres anyway. So me an mar mate were trundling through the Derbyshire countryside when i noticed that me tempreture gauge was through the roof!! I dived in to the nearest layby and cracked the bonnet open to find steam billowing out of the filler cap and the coolant bottle. I started to unscrew the filler cap a little to relieve some presure. But i undid it to much and the whole thing blew up in our face ive been scauled by boiling engine water all up my arm. (ouch)
We let the engine cool dwn then decide to drive back to a farm we had seen about a mile back. Luckily i had a jerry can on board, So me with jerry can in hand and my mate who is recovering from a broken ankle are walking/limping dwn this farm track leaving the truck on the roadside with bonnet up. We aproach this old rundwn farm and knock on the door and a couple of minutes later a elderly farmer appears at the door with big jam jar style glasses unshaven face and a bright orange lumberjack shirt on and we enquire if we can borrow some water for the Surf. Said farmer is very helpful and saved the day really and im very grateful. We get back to the surf and realise that is gonna be difficult to pour/lift a 20ltr jerry can in to a inch wide whole.After much routing around in the back i find a big flask so we fill the flask up then pour it in.
Back on the road we decide to keep on going to Milners we eventually get there with no help from the directions from Multimap.com and purchase 2 50/50 tyres which were dirt(no pun intended) cheap. I head back to sunny old Staffordshire and the temp guage is sitting fine in the middle of the dial, Until i get 3 miles from home wen she starts edging back up again! Just about got home and opend the bonnet and more steam pouring out. I fill the surf back up with water(again) and leave her running for a while and theres no loss of water,when i notice that the sensor on the side of wat i think is the water pump(i may be wrong) is missing its wire. I find the wire which aint in the best condition and re-connect it and hope full that the problem fix fingers crossed.
What dya reckon?
Any help would be helpful
Oh an Pops if your wondering why you had a missed call of me just look above
Today i decidede to go out and find 'Milners Off Road' in Matlock as its only 30 miles dwn the road an i need some tyres anyway. So me an mar mate were trundling through the Derbyshire countryside when i noticed that me tempreture gauge was through the roof!! I dived in to the nearest layby and cracked the bonnet open to find steam billowing out of the filler cap and the coolant bottle. I started to unscrew the filler cap a little to relieve some presure. But i undid it to much and the whole thing blew up in our face ive been scauled by boiling engine water all up my arm. (ouch)
We let the engine cool dwn then decide to drive back to a farm we had seen about a mile back. Luckily i had a jerry can on board, So me with jerry can in hand and my mate who is recovering from a broken ankle are walking/limping dwn this farm track leaving the truck on the roadside with bonnet up. We aproach this old rundwn farm and knock on the door and a couple of minutes later a elderly farmer appears at the door with big jam jar style glasses unshaven face and a bright orange lumberjack shirt on and we enquire if we can borrow some water for the Surf. Said farmer is very helpful and saved the day really and im very grateful. We get back to the surf and realise that is gonna be difficult to pour/lift a 20ltr jerry can in to a inch wide whole.After much routing around in the back i find a big flask so we fill the flask up then pour it in. Back on the road we decide to keep on going to Milners we eventually get there with no help from the directions from Multimap.com and purchase 2 50/50 tyres which were dirt(no pun intended) cheap. I head back to sunny old Staffordshire and the temp guage is sitting fine in the middle of the dial, Until i get 3 miles from home wen she starts edging back up again! Just about got home and opend the bonnet and more steam pouring out. I fill the surf back up with water(again) and leave her running for a while and theres no loss of water,when i notice that the sensor on the side of wat i think is the water pump(i may be wrong) is missing its wire. I find the wire which aint in the best condition and re-connect it and hope full that the problem fix fingers crossed.
What dya reckon?
Any help would be helpful
Oh an Pops if your wondering why you had a missed call of me just look above
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