Hi all. A word of warning. I have just come across this site and I thought I should tell you about a problem I had with a Town Ace that I once owed. I was driving home one day when it overheated. I stopped and found that a plate on the rear of the engine that has a thin outlet pipe for the heater system was leaking (2.0 litre petrol). I managed to get home after toping up the radiator with water. Because the plate was in a very awkward position and not easy to replace I put some radweld in to the radiator in the hope of curring the leak. All was fine for a few days and then it seriously overheated on a run to the shops. I topped the radiator up with water and managed to get home. At home I discovered that it had run dry so I very slowly filled the system with water and ran the engine. Within a few minutes it overheated and I noticed that both heaters were blowing cold. I took the Townie to my local garage and they discovered that the radiator and probably the heater matrix were totaly blocked by a sticky jelly like substance which I guess could only be the rad weld because everything had been fine up until it had first overheated. I had the radiator recored at a cost of £750.00 but due to the huge amount of work that would have been needed to repair the heater matrix I deceided to leave them. I ran my Townie for a further six months without heaters until I part exchanged it for a newer Townie, another petrol Royal Lounge which I had checked by a independant mechanic.
So if any one of you is running a 1989 2.0 litre 4x4 Royal Lounge with cold blowing heaters, SORRY.
The moral to this story is don't put radweld in a Townies raddiator because it buggers them up.

- (#7019) Lil, 30 Nov 03 7:23