Sunday 24 February 2019

Build up - temperature sensor, waterhoses, fanshroud, radiator and condensor

Yes! Finally the parts arrived earlier this week; the new reservoir tank, the reinforced hosekit and the temperature sensor. So additionally I bought 25 liter coolant. I looked it up and apparently the sytem has 21 liters of coolant:


I also had to buy seperately the new hose clamps:


I figured to buy a new sensor as well as it's a cheap item but also to avoid future replacement as that will cause a huge spill of the coolant.


It's also a very easy and rewarding task to replace:



Then onto the new hoses:




Then I found out it was impossible to mount the first waterpipe since the belt was preventing it. So I had to undo that and free up the tensioner again.


It was still a fiddling job but in the end all was placed accordingly. Looks so much nicer now with the repainted waterpipe and the new hoses and clamps:


Then placing the fan shroud. Again I'm very happy with the proper paint job of this item:


Next item, placing the radiator.


And consequently all the hoses:


One problem though. One hose clamp was not large enough. Exactly the one on the toughest location, the bottom hose at the engine location. So I need to source another one, sigh! 


And then placing the condensor. This required a little bending of the pipe to the hose but luckily this went fine.



So this looks quite nice now. But as Always another small problem popped up. The new reservoir tank could not be mounted due to missing screws (inch format - grrr!). I'm pretty sure they were still on the old one which went to the painter. And I suspect he had taken them off and likely they are gone now. So I now need to source them. Hopefully SNG Barrat has these as I think I will order 2 new caps for the radiator system.

Next I need to order one large hose clamp and more annoying, I'm still awaiting the airco harness which I ordered on the 5th of Feb. When checking I find out this item already arrived on the 9th in the Netherlands and has since been stuck in transit! (www.usps.com - LZ491983245US). Sigh! And I also need to refit the fan in order to get the wiring correctly on the top side (sigh!).

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