[The R8 Man]

Merry Christmas everybody!

My front indicator bulb blew today and whilst changing it I discovered my GSi had lost almost two pints of coolant due to a weep on the rad.

I would advise everyone to check their engines, especially if you have a K series engine like mine. Coolant can vanish without you even realising it!
8)

[IrishRover]

As all of us with Rover engines know well, you should be looking under your bonnet regularly anyway.

Have you seen the low coolant warning mod?

[E_T_V]

I was just about to suggest the very same thing

[The R8 Man]

I'm all ears guys, what parts do I need?

[IrishRover]

Here's a "how to" for retrofitting the coolant level sensor that came as standard on later K series engined cars:
http://forums.mg-rover.org/showthread.php?t=56578

[Purplevvc]

I've done this one, very reassuring it is too. The only thing you have to get used to is the warning light flickering if you are a bit enthusiastic in the twisties, but it does let you know the bulb is working because the retro fit doesn't make it come on before start up.

Alan

[IrishRover]

It was your car I was thinking of when thinking of the retrofit and using the check engine light as the warning light as it's only used on the Honda engined cars

[The R8 Man]

I've now replaced the old rad with a shiny new one, the hardest part was trying to remove and refit the rad out of the engine bay with the fan still attached!
On a side issue, does anyone know if all the hoses, both metal and rubber, are avaliable for the K series engined cars? Rimmers seem to be a bit on the thin side for replacement hoses as were my local parts factors.

[Dorset_Clive]

On the rally car, we picked up a £3 float switch from eBay and fitted that, connected through to the ABS warning light (as ours is a non-ABS car).

The longest job was working out which wires on the back of the instrument cluster connected to what. The numbers shown in the Haynes book don't seem to collate at all with what is on the back of the cluster :?

Still, once sorted, as has been said it is very reassuring.

And now, in our case "ABS" stands for "Another Bl@@dy Saturday" to change the engine

[Purplevvc]

I've now replaced the old rad with a shiny new one, the hardest part was trying to remove and refit the rad out of the engine bay with the fan still attached!
On a side issue, does anyone know if all the hoses, both metal and rubber, are avaliable for the K series engined cars? Rimmers seem to be a bit on the thin side for replacement hoses as were my local parts factors.

I replaced all the rubber hoses on my K series VVC last year, got them from an Xpart dealer. His words to me were that its likely all K series parts will be supplied as long as there is some demand, which there should be for quite a long time yet.

Alan