I. Randell
34 posts
Joined: 10/05/2005 09:11:36
Location: Milford Haven United Kingdom (Excluding channel Islands)
Which Hose
Nice one, cheers Lads.
Aside from that hose, does anyone know where I can get a silicone hose kit for an Spi? I can't seem to find a kit suitable for the Spi.
Cheers, Ian
Posted: Aug 07, 2007 12:35 PM
Mark
26 posts
Joined: 14/08/2008 22:14:34
Location: Wishaw United Kingdom (Excluding channel Islands)
SPi/MPi hose confusion for Japanese import with Air Con
I've just found out that the Japanese Air Con models are a mongrel of SPi and MPi components after believing I had an MPi for the past few years, since my car has the MPi style coil pack and so on...
My current problem is that I'm needing some new radiator hoses, so i figured i'd upgrade to silicone ones, but i don't know whether to buy SPi or MPi hoses (C-GRH005RED or C-GRH006RED )
The car definitely has the right-angled looking hose above the radiator that's in the MPi kit but because the engine bay is so packed it's hard to see anything underneath... any ideas?
Posted: Nov 11, 2016 08:51 AM
lee
3 posts
Joined: 26/03/2012 18:41:50
Location: sunderland United Kingdom (Excluding channel Islands)
picking your brains about overheating problems
hi i have a rover mini cooper sport on a 2000 so yes its a mpi :) this is how it goes copyed from my other post on the north east mini club forum ....
right lads its back over heating again this time think iv sussed it ... the systom had lots of water and only serton pipes where hot to touch and the radiator was only luke warm and the pressure in there was unreal .... couldnt even squeese the pipes at one point when iv let it cool and got the pressure out went round and had a look at some of the pipes and one of them was filled full with somthink felt like slushy like had a crunch consistancy after squeesing it for a fue mins i topped water levels back up and started it ran perfect for about 50 mins then ... over heated again ... now the slushy ness is near my heater in the car and its no where else and 3 quaters of the pipes are hot again ... so im thinking blockage somewhere ? im thinking old crappy anti freeze ..... so im on the hunt for a hose kit of my car only one i can find is this one and to me it doesnt look right so can one of you guys take a look at it and just tell me it is or if it isnt basicly iv already flushed the systom when i did the water pump and thermostat just hope its not in my radiator
i got told to flush the systom fully back and forth all pipes radiator heater the works so i did
right for all use that are intrested in this thread and not sick of me and a fue mates on sunday after getting over missing the run out we got stuck into the mini taking off every pipe i could with out removing to much and making a big job and disconected every pipe and stuck the hose pipe down every hole every pipe and ran it till it was cristle clear as i was doing this there was tiny bits of metal flakes looked like rust flakes but not 100% so everythink was clean water put pipes back on filled up water again ran it through check all pipes all were hot turned it off let it settle and toped up levels ... then took it for a run down the sea frount out for around 40-50 mins before the beer and bbq was calling with the lads obv... as the weather was loverly ... car ran loverly never over heated never built up pressure nothink today was scorching weather again run to work was around 40 mins again and nothink got a little hot but then pulled it self back down tomorrow im going to try and take it for a long run out see what happends ... anyone else have anythink i can check or do to elimanate another problem it could be or could have been may be the case ?
was just wondering if anyone else had any other ideas hints tips i could do just like to add before this happend its had new thermo stat and water pump i run it on 50/50 water antifreeze the electric fans work all the sencers work just want to go over everythink as i have a run out to edinburgha in a fue weeks and really would like to get there with out cooking my engine thanks Lee
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 06:54 PM