23-09-2021, 10:06 PM
So before the reassembled engine leaves the workshop to allow the Ruby to resume whizzing, are you suggesting that I should fit a blower?
Contributing to the debate, having a temperature gauge gives an indication of how quickly the very small volume of coolant can change temperature. My Ruby, with clean waterways and a very good radiator from the nice young man in Ludlow, never comes near to actually boiling, even when exploring old hill climbs. In the winter, taking the fan belt off keeps it at a reasonable working temperature. Oil certainly takes longer to warm up, a journey that has a nearby destination always needs a longish diversion to make sure everything is properly warmed up. There have been entire choruses of warnings of the dangers of firing up just to charge the battery, or leaving on tick over for five minutes in the cold weather. It would seem to me that the machine should either see regular use all year round, or else be put to bed, with battery disconnected if there is no master switch, and basic storage prep.
Contributing to the debate, having a temperature gauge gives an indication of how quickly the very small volume of coolant can change temperature. My Ruby, with clean waterways and a very good radiator from the nice young man in Ludlow, never comes near to actually boiling, even when exploring old hill climbs. In the winter, taking the fan belt off keeps it at a reasonable working temperature. Oil certainly takes longer to warm up, a journey that has a nearby destination always needs a longish diversion to make sure everything is properly warmed up. There have been entire choruses of warnings of the dangers of firing up just to charge the battery, or leaving on tick over for five minutes in the cold weather. It would seem to me that the machine should either see regular use all year round, or else be put to bed, with battery disconnected if there is no master switch, and basic storage prep.