With a heavy duty rachet set, the nut holding the fan assembly in place finally loosened off and allowed the Motor Rail radiator assembly to be slowly taken to bits. One awkward job was to remove a large nest from inside the top water reservoir!
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Although the radiator was tested, surprisingly only suggesting a couple of minor leaks, but after removing the elements one by one, the reason for the apparent good condition of the radiator was the most of the tubes were blocked, so were not even drawing water down their length. Most of the rubber seals/grommits needed replacing, and fortunately Alan Keef still had a ready stock of these.
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The outside was given an initial coat of paint with the elements removed, then after they were all replaced a second coat of paint was follwed by highlighting of the lettering in white. At this stage although there had been a water test done when half the elements were in place, but the final test was yet to be done.
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