hmmm.
I'm actually booked in to take it down to Tony next Friday for the full service before leaving on Saturday. but the condenser is in place fitted, plumbed in and no leaks as of this evening. I had to use one of the aircon compressor fittings on one side of it, as one side was considerably smaller than the other, but apart from the sizes and angles of the pipes, the fittings on comp & condenser are all the same.
the fans run on the air con switch only at the moment, but am going to try and wire them to start when the rad fan does.
my thinking is that as I was going to do the journey without it, this can only really make things better?
I also now have 2 blocks of 8mm steel under the bonnet mountings so airflow should be a bit better, and when my viscous silicon oil, 82 degree stat and new rad cap all arrive @ toyota on thursday the cooling system should be in pretty good order.
I have had no overheating problems with it anyway, but its a pretty tall test for a 15 year old car with common overheating under load issues. ..will see how it behaves the next few days and consider my options, thx for the link
kev
afterthought, as its pretty big, I would have thought that even the extra ATF fluid involved should help keep the box temp down a little?
I'm actually booked in to take it down to Tony next Friday for the full service before leaving on Saturday. but the condenser is in place fitted, plumbed in and no leaks as of this evening. I had to use one of the aircon compressor fittings on one side of it, as one side was considerably smaller than the other, but apart from the sizes and angles of the pipes, the fittings on comp & condenser are all the same.
the fans run on the air con switch only at the moment, but am going to try and wire them to start when the rad fan does.
my thinking is that as I was going to do the journey without it, this can only really make things better?
I also now have 2 blocks of 8mm steel under the bonnet mountings so airflow should be a bit better, and when my viscous silicon oil, 82 degree stat and new rad cap all arrive @ toyota on thursday the cooling system should be in pretty good order.
I have had no overheating problems with it anyway, but its a pretty tall test for a 15 year old car with common overheating under load issues. ..will see how it behaves the next few days and consider my options, thx for the link
kev
afterthought, as its pretty big, I would have thought that even the extra ATF fluid involved should help keep the box temp down a little?
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