Cooling Williams

[king.stromba]

Drove both of my Williams over the past couple of days. 0002 runs cooler than 0200 on both water and oil temp. What are my list of jobs / replacement parts i will need to get 200 running normally? The clloant on 0200 has been flushed about 800 miles ago and is blue, not brown. ANy cheap things i can do that will help while i wait for more expensive / garage jobs to be done?

 

[Matbrown]

Thermostat, Oil change.



Mat.

 

[cliosportcraig]

new heater matrix ?

 

[Tom_16v]

They both are probably fine.

Different sets of gauges will read different temps....

I know my water temp gauge reads higher than most other peoples valvers, but still I know its running fine.

Do you think 0200 is running hot?

 

[Clart]

mine runs well cold! think its got some low temp stuff in, takes ages to warm up

 

[BigBoreBri]

Shouldnt the coolant for the F7R/F7P engines be a redish colour..?

Isnt one of the reasons for head gaskets going because of poorley bleed coolant circuits with naff coolant..

 

[BenR]

Yup.

But its also red thanks to ren to hide corrosion! lol

Anyway, the type of oil u use can affect oil temps, the type of coolant and how well it was bled, how dirty the rad is as a prper flush through takes about 10-15 mins.

 

[Adams_16v]

mine runs hot, water between 1/4 and half and oil around 100 normal, 90 if driving under 4k and 120 if on the M1!

my matrix is blocked though!

 

[BenR]

What oil you running?

I found mobil 1 motorsport poor as helll for its thermal capcity.