Thread: Bus is overheating.

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We seem to have fixed it. We went through 36Sedan's checklist, (apart from the carburetion, she's fuel injected,) and it all checked out.
Roger Spears made the point about air flow. That got thought about very deeply.
Firebird's idea too was given a lot of deep thought.

We went to a mate's 70th birthday party a week or two ago, hot rodders and bikers were there in their dozens, and much thought and talk evolved around our overheating problems.
Murray Lincoln came up with the same salient point as Roger Spears did: 'It's all about air flow".
He'd had the same problem with a car of his, and how he remedied it was to put louvres into the inner guards, to let the hot air dissipate more easily.
And it worked.
So once home we went through to Grub Jones' (a hot-rodding mate,) garage and mooted the idea to him.
Everybody could see the logic of this idea, but Grub said "Let's go one better and put fans in the inner guard, controlled by a switch on the dashboard. If you see the temperature gauge rising; punch the switch".
So that's what we've done.
It got a real tryout today when I brought it back home, where I struck every bloody traffic light at yellow and had to wait through every full cycle, had to follow some clown the full length of Molesworth St at 20 mph…that would’ve had her boiling twice over before. Now the temperature gauge never rose above 175*.
And that’s all good.
Thanks for your help people, your thoughts/ideas (which I copied down from here,) were discussed at great length on the other side of the world.
I'm truly grateful and appreciative for your help and knowledge.