That sinking feeling

[Kevin Garrod]

I was giving it some beans down the A22 Caterham bypass yesterday evening and just as I shifted the autobox into 3rd at circa 5,500rpm there was a huge cloud of what I intitiall thought was smoke out of the right hand tail pipe. I pulled over sharpish into a layby and switched off.
Fortunately all that had happened was that one of my coolant hoses had come adrift, (my own fault for using a piece of ally tubing without a lip as a joining piece! I now have proper silicone hose on order)
My mate came to my rescue with some tools and replacement water and a made it home without further problems. It's nice to know my low coolant warning light works!

Who was in the Red Stag heading the other way who hooted and waved?

[milothedog]

I was giving it some beans down the A22 Caterham bypass yesterday evening and just as I shifted the autobox into 3rd at circa 5,500rpm there was a huge cloud of what I intitiall thought was smoke out of the right hand tail pipe. I pulled over sharpish into a layby and switched off.
Fortunately all that had happened was that one of my coolant hoses had come adrift, (my own fault for using a piece of ally tubing without a lip as a joining piece! I now have proper silicone hose on order)
My mate came to my rescue with some tools and replacement water and a made it home without further problems. It's nice to know my low coolant warning light works!

Who was in the Red Stag heading the other way who hooted and waved?

Obviously not a very helpful forum person

Glad it's only a trivial thing Kevin, you do like abusing it, don't you. I can still see the crowd around it at ND and your Wife saying "we've got to go home in that" How's the mutt doing, he must have grown a bit now.

Ian.

[KOY 23]

I was giving it some beans down the A22 Caterham bypass yesterday evening and just as I shifted the autobox into 3rd at circa 5,500rpm there was a huge cloud of what I intitiall thought was smoke out of the right hand tail pipe. I pulled over sharpish into a layby and switched off.
Fortunately all that had happened was that one of my coolant hoses had come adrift, (my own fault for using a piece of ally tubing without a lip as a joining piece! I now have proper silicone hose on order)
My mate came to my rescue with some tools and replacement water and a made it home without further problems. It's nice to know my low coolant warning light works!

Who was in the Red Stag heading the other way who hooted and waved?

Bet it was the revenge of your Brummie mate

[Guest]

Changed up a bit early there Kev, I thought you waited for the valves to bounce!!

Jason

[Kevin Garrod]

Yep Harvey is a fair size now, about 20kg.

To be fair to the other Stag driver my mate was with me at the time so all under control and it would be fair round trip to the other end of the dual carriageway and back to get to me
. I thought it might have been the Arbman?

As for abusing my car, you should have seen me in my mate's Dolomite Sprint at Prescott..... That was fun!
Hope to go to the Standard-Triumph forum event this Sunday if the weather is ok and my hose arrives in time.

[Another Peter]

Hope to go to the Standard-Triumph forum event this Sunday if the weather is ok and my hose arrives in time.

Forecast is not promising I'm afraid - cold with a lot of rain on Saturday and risk of showers on Sunday

Still plenty of time for it to change though...

Regards

Peter

[Arbman Al]

Not me Kevin! I would have stopped anyway.

Got my diff and rear suspension out at the mo...

[Kevin Garrod]

Of course!
Whoever it was had a mesh wind deflector like yours and mine.

[stag157.7]

Forecast is not promising I'm afraid - cold with a lot of rain on Saturday and risk of showers on Sunday

Still plenty of time for it to change though...

Regards


Peter

I also hope to go to prescot

but it will the weather that dictates any decision to go


alan