oil temperature

Its not the water pump that can be damaged,its all the liners that break there seals and we then have the fun of lifting them all out to reseal them,mind you we have only ever had one pump damaged in 7 years due to heat.heads being damaged is the favorite of customers,another one is having the cam belt snap and tow starting there car for 2 miles to make sure every valve and every piston on there 160 is distroyed.he had a gasket failure carried on driving,then the belt snapped.

dazlightyear wrote: the basic truth with these cars.the engine was designed long before an mgf,the temp gauge only works in water.if the h/G fails and lets the water out of the head,then your gauge will show cold,as the water has gone,the engine will cook.A low coolant alarm is a good idea and a bad idea.
low coolant alarms dont always work,and if you rely on them you are watching some thing that may not tell you the truth.
The best way to use these cars in to check your coolant daily if doing a lot of miles or weekly if short runs.If a hose splites you can smell coolant and smell steam.
Years ago men knew there machices,there noise,smell in fact every thing,steam train used to have a bearing that gave off a smell just before it failed.can you imagine that these days.
So
1 CHECK YOU HAVE A NEW TYPE OF GASKET
2 CHECK YOUR RAD AND THAT THE FANS ALL WORK
3 CLEAN THE FINS ON YOUR RAD
4 CHECK ALL YOUR HOSES
5 CHECK YOUR LEVELS WEEKLY OIL AND WATER
6 ENJOY YOUR CAR.
IF YOU KEEP YOUR CAR MAINTAINED IT WILL BE FINE.IF YOUR CAR STARTS TO OVER HEAT SWITCH IT OFF FOR 30 MINUTES.

Daz...That's the best bit of MGF advice I have ever heard.
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Cheers,
Rich :thumbsup:

dazlightyear wrote: 1 CHECK YOU HAVE A NEW TYPE OF GASKET.

Daz, How do you check if you have a new type of gasket? I have no maintenance history for my 95 F and am curious if the head gasket has been changed or not. The car has approximately 89,000 miles on the odometer.

100c ish round town. 120c on a longer run.

mowog73 wrote:

dazlightyear wrote: 1 CHECK YOU HAVE A NEW TYPE OF GASKET.

Daz, How do you check if you have a new type of gasket? I have no maintenance history for my 95 F and am curious if the head gasket has been changed or not. The car has approximately 89,000 miles on the odometer.

I seem to remember that there is a tab on the Head Gasket that protrudes, but can't recall at what point it is,:shrug:

Being out in the Nissan200 today I took note of oil temperatures while driving.

It was quite instructive. :yesnod: Quiet driving 70-75C Motorway 'cruising' 80-85C
Serious ragging 85-90C
Now this is a seriously over turbo'd (up to 24 psi boost) rocket, so I would suggest the readings on the MG oil temp gauge be taken with a pinch of salt.

As long as it reads whatever it usually does and doesn't start rising unusually, I wouldn't pay too much attention to what temp it reads.

also rover designed it,wired it fitted it and checked it.when I work at rover we used to say rover product recieved free servicing for life.they often did.12000 mile service was free most cars had blown up buy 24000 miles.I had a new mgf with 35 miles on the clock and she had blown her head gasket.we used to have a bay for aa and rac trucks.we used to see some very nice cars in our work shop expensive cars,low milage and massive repairs,all of them due to the factory .we had 8 mgfs in .painted on the out side,door shuts in primer.and we had 3 that had no gear linkage cables.mind you the car fitted with an engine with out pistons was the best one.our dealer ship was opposite bmw,when they got a delievery all there cars drove off the transporter.we often had 7 cars and one big crate.that contained the parts that had been missed of the factory flour.At one point the factory had issues with supply,factories had just in time delievery.so the prodution line had parts,but due to a rover mess up they had run out of starter motors.no problem just build them and send the starters later.
Not the nine oclock news sum rover up.built by roberts .the mgf could have been so much better.the oil temp gauge was a last minute idea to fill a hole.they had three choices.oil temp oil pressure or a vacum gauge to show mpg.oil temp was cheaper and simple to fit.did it work no.not even the clock worked.the fuel gauge works just.
the only thing that always worked where the hazard lights.when ever we work on a car we look around the engine bay to see if its been painted.