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how are you doing amigo, any improvements or progressions with the zs?

Building a little toy here you might find useful...

Did you managed to sort your ZS diesel?

I changed my whole oil cooler because I couldn't get the stat out, and of course fitted a new 'stat while doing so... and it still boils up if I give it the welly!

Now where are my matches...

Hi mate the 400/45/ZS pedal height adjustment bracket is ready to order now. Kit is priced at £4.25 including P+P, and will be sorting out the first batch tomorrow.

Payment via PayPal to dellboymat@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks for the interest!

The price is always right joking haha.

Thought so, it's odd symptoms as they usually fail open but seems on the later Dervs they don't.

Glad the light at the end of the tunnel isn't an oncoming train! Mat

Oh i might well do thanks, I know that Matt has a trade account with Xpart though so it might be cheaper for him to get one.

The car is booked in for a new holiday with rally matt next friday - going to get the pressure readings and check the cooling system. depending on what is found depends on the next step.

i suspect we will fashion the pressure relief system regardless if we detect reading above 26PSI in the Exaust manifold. Whether it is causing this issue or not, as it should be about the same as boost generally....

No worries, think it's worth a try for free!

Also got a new thermostat I don't need now if you want it, OEM Rover.

Mat

Fixed it!

Tried to get the 'stat out of the housing, snapped a TORX bit and so didn't actually get it apart... but gave the system a good flush, ran with some Boi washing powder in to clean the crud out, and also got some needle-nose pliers up the oil cooler outlet to give the end of the 'stat a bit of a free-up.

All back together and working perfectly, bottom pipe hot now and no overheating

Worth a shot, took me 30 mins!

Afternoon mate, we've deemed the 'stat the issue on my car, after I measured the top of the radiator as 110 degrees and bottom as 24!
I'd be changing yours, sounds just like mine.

Interesting stuff. Just make sure anything you use has a 145 degree spray angle and should be fine.

I thought vag's were all 150, you learn something new every day. It is time people looked at different sorts of nozzles though, theres few pump upgrades available so it's up to the map to request it and the nozzle to deliver it i'm afraid.

Oh, so the sort that get used in bosch's racing experiments and such?