[Healeys] thermostat discussion

[Quinn, Patrick]

G'day

I agree with Alan, as in warmer climates it's imperative to ensure that there
is maximum flow of coolant. If a number of radiator tubes are blocked it cuts
the effectiveness.

I have had considerable success with having radiators rodded, except that it's
a pain in the bum to remove the radiator from my car as it has to come out via
the grille opening.

Are we not forgetting the original problem? Isn't it a freshly rebuilt car
with just 100 miles on the clock? Surely the radiator won't need attention or
am I missing something?

Hoo Roo

Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Alan Seigrist
Sent: Monday, 6 July 2009 9:03 AM
To: Oudesluys; Jerry Costanzo; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] thermostat discussion

Kees -

I live in the hottest climate of anyone here.

If you are lucky enough to still have a factory radiator core (many
BN1s and BN2s will have em), rodding will do wonders to improve
cooling.  The trick is you have to also power flush the block and use
a thermostat with a wide diameter opening.

Alan

On 7/6/09, Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:
> Rodding/cleaning a radiator is rather useless. For a bit more you have a
> new core installed and it is very hard or even impossible to remove
> scale from a core properly and so far I have had very little luck. These
> days I go for a new core or radiator.
>
> Indeed it is vital that all air should pass through the radiator, so
> blocking up all openings around the radiator shell is called for. Very
> often the top is forgotten
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL
>
> Jerry Costanzo schreef:
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