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Apr 25, 2008 8:00 am
Apr 25, 2008 8:00 am
Subject: 2l Continental Radiator
Norbert (S91, living close to me and not speaking english) asked me to post his problem:
He has a 2l Continental and has overheating problems. The radiator has been cleaned by at least 2 professionals. He is now so desperate that he is looking for a new radiator. So question 1: good/cheap source for that.
In the attached image you see his old one. Does look quite good to me and I supposed to do a cleaning with e.g. 10% citric (or similar) acid, hot (e.g.60-70°Celsius) during an hour or more with the cooler out of the car and a separate pump pumping through it. Question 2: comments about this idea.
To make shure the overheating comes from scaling in the radiator he should check that boiling occurs with overal water temperature high and not like in my V12 some time ago with overal water temperature low. The latter hapened with bad water circulation (bad pump, small water channels in the cylinder head because of deposits there), so local overheating.
Question 3: other things he should check ?
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Norbert (S91, living close to me and not speaking english) asked me to post his problem:
He has a 2l Continental and has overheating problems. The radiator has been cleaned by at least 2 professionals. He is now so desperate that he is looking for a new radiator. So question 1: good/cheap source for that.
In the attached image you see his old one. Does look quite good to me and I supposed to do a cleaning with e.g. 10% citric (or similar) acid, hot (e.g.60-70°Celsius) during an hour or more with the cooler out of the car and a separate pump pumping through it. Question 2: comments about this idea.
To make shure the overheating comes from scaling in the radiator he should check that boiling occurs with overal water temperature high and not like in my V12 some time ago with overal water temperature low. The latter hapened with bad water circulation (bad pump, small water channels in the cylinder head because of deposits there), so local overheating.
Question 3: other things he should check ?
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