Hi guys
Again I am asking about my Dad's poor old AU1 Fairy-mont.
It has had this problem for about a year now, and he thought he had fixed it but it appears not to be the case.
On very hot days (say over 35 degrees), the car overheats to the point that the temp needle is on the red on the guage. It slowly climbs up, and it is much worse sitting in peak hour traffic or under load (going up Old Belair Rd coming home from work). But this is only on very hot days, normal days, it is fine.
Once it gets this hot, the auto starts playing up, shuddering etc and apparently this is normal when they get hot. They lock up. Once he gets to the top of the hill and cruises back down again to where he lives, the whole thing cools down to normal within about 60 sec... you can see the needle falling and the trans returns to normal.
He recently had a brand new radiator put in at a specialist place, who said something about metal shavings clogging things up and apparently there were a lot of shavings in the radiator. He also said that the Ford radiator was rubbish and it was cracked and broken... so they put a better one in.
Anyway, a week or so after, it has been doing the same thing again, exactly. Overheating on hot days, trans playing up and then cooling down really quickly. Turning the a/c off helps a little.
At no time has there been any coolant loss either, before or after the fix.
Nothing else seems evident.
Does anyone have any ideas???
Thanks
Jac
