MG Montego Turbo goes

[Doctordiesel77]

Unbelievable after all that work and new parts! I'm sure cars have personalities, even though they are just a selection of inanimate objects bolted together. That one seems to have a warped sense of humour...

[Jeff Turbo]

This car is determined, in near 30 years of driving Montego Turbo's I've never met one so determined to leak water when it can anywhere and everywhere, hasn't leaked since until today. This will now have to wait till after the NEC

[Jeff Turbo]

Excellent! Looks a top job under there...

Ta, Chris is now using it before getting it ready for the NEC Classic Car show, then it will be put away for the winter

[Doctordiesel77]

Excellent! Looks a top job under there...

[Jeff Turbo]

And that's cured that then , no more temperature gauge going up and no leaks, happy days

[Jeff Turbo]

All on and hopefully no more water leaks

[Jeff Turbo]

Arrived two weeks early and waiting to be attached. Will but new jubilee clips first though and will also buy the missing hose from the set. The rear water pipe to the matrix pipe isn't included

[Jeff Turbo]

Sorry to hear that, it sounds like one of those things that could have been worse, but is quite bad enough..there's not much between you and the scenery on a bike..Hope he is not too bad & that he gets well soon. At least he'll have a watertight cooling system to look forward to when he recovers. Those pipes look good, not cheap, but must be just about hand made I guess.

Made to order and should be here by the end of September hopefully, will then put on the triple core rad
He's not too bad, struggling a bit with dizziness, pain in the shoulder blade as it got smashed and ribs sore from three being broken. All his bike clothing got cut off him, helmet is knackered so that's all gone but as least he's alive and will get better over time

[Doctordiesel77]

Yeah was getting a fed up with one going, then another etc so ordered these but due in September, Chris won't be driving for a few months anyway as he's had a motorbike accident and broken a few bones https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155382372...Bk9SR8z045evZA

Sorry to hear that, it sounds like one of those things that could have been worse, but is quite bad enough..there's not much between you and the scenery on a bike..Hope he is not too bad & that he gets well soon. At least he'll have a watertight cooling system to look forward to when he recovers. Those pipes look good, not cheap, but must be just about hand made I guess.

[Jeff Turbo]

Yeah was getting a fed up with one going, then another etc so ordered these but due in September, Chris won't be driving for a few months anyway as he's had a motorbike accident and broken a few bones https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155382372...Bk9SR8z045evZA

[Doctordiesel77]

Some new hoses won't do any harm, I'm always a bit wary of n.o.s. original ones, if they haven't been stored correctly they could be a ticking time bomb!

[Jeff Turbo]

Looks a lot better than the skinny original ones!

Hoping so, I've also ordered a set of samco water hoses as the existing are slowly falling apart which has been an issue since it's been on the road

[Doctordiesel77]

Looks a lot better than the skinny original ones!

[Jeff Turbo]

New triple core rad waiting to go on, that should stop the getting warmer issue when going 70 and a bit more

[Jeff Turbo]

Looks a lot better than when you got it! An extra row on the radiator should put a stop to any running hot tendencies. The cutting out incident could be caused by a sticky ignition switch, I had something similar once, key wasn't quite in the right place, everything worked ok until I put a bigger load on (by trying to close the frosty window that I opened to see out at a junction), then half of the ignition controlled stuff went off, it being a diesel the engine stayed on. Did a bit of fuse checking in the dark (didn't switch engine off, in case of a fault escalation...this was a mistake!), no faults found, drove home with icy blast through car. Got back, turned engine off, clock came on, realised that switch had stuck between aux and ign positions, any movement of switch would have fixed it, said oh dear once or twice If this (or something similar) is what happened, you'll probably never find it, but it'll probably not do it again..

Yes it happened a few times on his way home, every time he put the fan on it died so he turned the fan off and no other issues. When he got home he turned the fan on and it didn't die on him, tried numerous times but again didn't die so I have no idea what that was about, could be what you are indicating but as it's never happened before or after I am at a loss as it's not on the same circuit..
Chris said a bit more than oh dear btw and so did I