Wifes Cougar

[bunter]

have a look at the coolant leval see if the fans are running.

she toped the coolant up 20 mins later she rang back with the cougar has over heated.

so i rang a mate to pick me up and off to find them on Cumberland hwy livo. i get there no coolant and its all over the ground behind and under the car, so lucky i took 12l of water and re filled it ran the car seemed to cool down and looked stable enough to drive, she drove off go 10meters down the road and it spat out all the water all over the place.

Ended up getting a tow truck and had it towed home,
Next day ii drove it just up the road to my mech and said FIX it and then call me.


next day he rings me and said that the coolant bottle had a big split in it and that the water pump had a big crack in it and that the thumastat O righ had to be replaces and 1 hose and a few hose clamps, and told me it also needs a fan belt and the tension pulley was seized.

Rang ford for a coolant bottle and got told 238.80 + GST, bugger that, my mech gave me a number to ring for a coolant Bootle maz bits in Grandville, 2nd hand near new for $125, car is all back and running found out what started all the trouble i9t all started because of the tension pulley had seized and stuffed the belt and that stoped the pump from working and it built up so much pressure it split the pump and the coolant bottle.

now have to do the struts in the front and the strut bearings 350 a pair of boges from Penrith.

here i was thinking that it would be hard to find parts so far so good and not from ford.

lucky we didnt blow any of the head gascuts.