Went up there today and got the temp gauge working (which helps) and also, while furgling around behind the dash found that the hoses to the heater were held in place by willpower alone, as the guy who re-mounted it after it was cleaned and checked had omitted to tighten up the jubilee clips - yes, I know I should have checked it, but I didn't, OK? - so they were tightened up (the bonus to that being that when the system dumped I would guess it dumped through unsecured hoses rather than rupturing the matrix), filled the system with best quality rainwater, fired it up and tried again. Slowly but surely, up went the gauge until it was high in the red. Checked the hoses, they were cold so it is looking more and more like a circulation problem which will be addressed Monday next.
Don't touch that dial!
C.A.
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