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[Flying Carrot Steve]

On 03/11/2024 at 18:00, Captain Colonial said:

18psi is the normal most used tyre pressure.  If you’re keen on seeing what it’s like to hydroplane, pump them up to 30psi and drive on a wet road and you’ll soon find out what looking at the world sideways through your windscreen is like.*

 

*Do not do this!

 

Yep I'm aware of that. What I was referring to was winter tips for tyres while off the road. Obviously not actually driving them at +50% pressure! And I don't have a windscreen so I won't be seeing anything sideways though it 🤣🤣

[Dan Hook]

Fitted a new cylinder head temp sensor yesterday. Surprised that it’s not in a coolant flow but just sits in the block in a blind hole. No spilt coolant at least or air to bleed. 
 

Calibrated it with a thermos of boiling water to check it was doing its job at working temperatures. Was within a degree of the temperature curve in the ECU so I left that as is. 
 

Anyway - started and idled like any OEM would. Result 🤙even got a drive out of it in the sunshine. 

 

Slightly rusty flywheel to look at now as apparently on a factory assembly engine and gearbox (got the certificate) the is no sandwich plate on the bell housing. Fail.  Rust converter and a new plate it is unless the engine comes out for another reason in the future. 

[Kingster]

13 hours ago, Dan Hook said:

Fitted a new cylinder head temp sensor yesterday. Surprised that it’s not in a coolant flow but just sits in the block in a blind hole. No spilt coolant at least or air to bleed. 

It is common to have both Cylinder Head Temp and Coolant Temp sensors. The CHT will then be used by the ECU and the CT will feed the dash gauge. 

[Craigieboy]

On 18/11/2024 at 19:57, Dan Hook said:

Fitted a new cylinder head temp sensor yesterday. Surprised that it’s not in a coolant flow but just sits in the block in a blind hole. No spilt coolant at least or air to bleed. 
 

Calibrated it with a thermos of boiling water to check it was doing its job at working temperatures. Was within a degree of the temperature curve in the ECU so I left that as is. 
 

Anyway - started and idled like any OEM would. Result 🤙even got a drive out of it in the sunshine. 

 

Slightly rusty flywheel to look at now as apparently on a factory assembly engine and gearbox (got the certificate) the is no sandwich plate on the bell housing. Fail.  Rust converter and a new plate it is unless the engine comes out for another reason in the future. 

 

Hi, Do you have a link to the temp sender

 

Cheers

[Dan Hook]

Sure do. 
 

https://tpuk.net/cylinder-head-temp-sensor-ford-mondeo-transit-focus-fiesta.html

[tex]

With regards to fuel, the increase of ethanol can cause damage to certain parts of the system, by leaving fuel in potentially problems can occur. I've personally not had any yet, but put additives in IF I am leaving it a while

[Ansoeb]

2 hours ago, tex said:

With regards to fuel, the increase of ethanol can cause damage to certain parts of the system, by leaving fuel in potentially problems can occur. I've personally not had any yet, but put additives in IF I am leaving it a while

I just fill the tank to the brim with 99 Ron super unleaded.minimum ethanol and leaving it for 6 months in the tank with no air gap works great 

[dvd8n]

16 minutes ago, Ansoeb said:

I just fill the tank to the brim with 99 Ron super unleaded.minimum ethanol and leaving it for 6 months in the tank with no air gap works great 

I always use Super too; not because the car needs it but because it minimises ethanol in the system.  It probably doesn't matter and I'm just being over-cautious, but for the tiny amount of fuel that I use it is not a big outlay.

 

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