Blown hg on the 144.
Tooling over to the garage approx 7 miles away, just passing the village sign when I spot big steam following me, looking like it comes from the zorst; make it up the hill to Buzz'z place and stop, more steam comes from general area of bonnet. On checking under the hood we can see no obvious lesions so we fill up with 50/50 mix anti-freeze and give it a test run; no probs with short (two and a half miles) run, bleed air from cooling system, decide that the problem must have had something to do with replacing the thermostat last week, you know, trapped air, localised hot spot, high pressure forced the expansion bottle cap, that sort of thing.
Until it came for time to go home. Two miles down the road there's an ominous hissing from the general area of the heater, so I turn the engine off, coast to a halt, nip out and ease the lid off the expansion bottle - no way, jose, too much pressure. Not enough power in (new) battery to crank engine, hope I've not seized it, BLAST BLAST BLAST, BUGGERY BUMOLES AND F*CK!
A-frame back to Cwrtnewydd and left it there, Buzz will try and do a comp test tomorrow, not full of the joys of spring just at the mo.
C.A.
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